From dsandler@stardot.com Thu Nov 16 12:05:45 2000 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:40:44 -0800 From: dan sandler To: Amir 'CG' Caspi Cc: Justin Osborn , fogies@mbhs.edu Subject: Re: Some questions At 7:58 PM -0500 11/15/00, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > PhoneNet works through the mini-DIN9 connection, using one of those gray > connector boxes... Right, I was actually referring to the DIN9 serial connectors *between* machines on the Apple version. > I don't actually recall, though, whether we used PhoneNet or > actual serial cables, since that was before we got the PowerMacs (i.e. > before I was wholly active in the maintenance); once those came in, we > began ethernetting the entire place (and I became active in maintenance). We actually used the much-more-expensive Apple-issue serial-repeater deals. Yes, it was much more expensive. I can readily call to mind hideous images of that space-between-machine-tables, tangled thick with those nasty gray cables ... -d