Re: [NTLK] Local Talk?!?

From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 12:35:29 PST


Uh folks...
Brown, Red, Brown Gold? it ain't 2300 ohms. It's 120
ohms:
http://webhome.idirect.com/~jadams/electronics/resist/resist_calc.htm

Ed
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--- "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop_at_ninehells.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:59:27PM -0500, Laurent
> Daudelin wrote:
> > on 10/02/03 19:17, Joshua Braddock at
> joshua.braddock_at_sendit.nodak.edu
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all, i was wondering how to do a local talk
> network with my
> > > home phone lines. Is there a way that i can
> plug one box into my
> > > phone jack and the other into a appletalk to
> ethernet box, and use
> > > my emate anywhere in the house with a phone
> jack? also, where can i
> > > find some adapters with terminators? The school
> said they would give
> > > me some, if they found some.. anyways, thanks in
> advanced.
> >
> > That's what we did a long time ago, when I was
> working for an Apple
> > dealer. We used a pair of phone wire that wasn't
> used by the phone
> > system. We put a special wall jack next to the
> phone jack and
> > everybody was using PhoneNets. That worked well.
> Don't know about the
> > resistance,though...
>
> Brown Red Brown Gold on the ones in my parts drawer.
> 2300 Ohms at 5%?

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