Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:20:41 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: Box assorted floppies

In article <20100726124651.hukdwsykm8k08os0@...>,
J.G.Harston <jgh@...> writes

>You could get 'T' pieces made of three DIN sockets where you could plug
>three leads together

Yeah, I saw plenty of those.  Complete nightmare, schools with large
multi-room networks wired using those things by a clueless IT tech who
then wondered why they had a notwork.

>, it would have been more useful if you could get
>'T' pieces made with two DIN sockets and a DIN plug. Then you could've
>plugged the 'T' directly into the back of a machine and two leads to
>connect to before/next machines. Simplest way to give minimum drop-lead
>distance - the length of the plug itself ;)

That would be very nice, but in an educational environment...  wouldn't
like to be the tech trying to find the cable some little scrote had
unplugged.

Another favourite for the scrotes was pushing drawing pins through thin
(coax) Ethernet.

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