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In article <1992Oct9.222030.5043@u.washington.edu>, dxxb@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barts) writes:

|> Well, today I uncrate one of the two shiny new SparcStation 10's
|> that arrived 2 weeks ago, and in the process of setting things up
|> I discover that the system unit has twisted pair and AUI connectors,
|> but not thinwire (and guess which is the most common around here
|> -- that's right).  To make things even more interesting, Sun didn't
|> make the AUI connector standard; it's a tiny little connector that
|> looks like half of a SCSI port.  It has lots of little contact
|> pins, and is used as both an audio output port and an AUI port.
|> 
|> Naturally, Sun wants to charge an arm and a leg for the cable that
|> turns this bizarre port into something useful, and I'm even less
|> thrilled about having to plug an MAU into that cable (and the MAU
|> probably won't mate with the DB15 plug at the end of the Sun adapter,
|> so I'll have to buy a short length of AUI cable to connect it).
|> So what we end up with is an adapter plugged into an adaptor plugged
|> into an adaptor -- YUCK!
|> 
|> Or, alternatively, we could plug a twisted pair to thinwire adapter
|> into the twisted pair port, but one of those costs around $375,
|> which is about $175 than the previous option.
|> 
|> Please, someone tell me there's a better way of doing this.
|> 
|> (I will refrain from commenting once again how Sun seems to have
|> gotten a bad case of IBM-itis and is now gleefully engaging in
|> nickling-and-diming their customers to death by manufacturing
|> systems that require expensive little 'extras' to make them do
|> things that most other vendor's systems can do right out of the
|> box.  Oops, I just did.)

i purchased the cable :-)

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