> I have a Mac SE which works, but I am still smitten with the floppy-only > Internet access bug, so I don't use it much. It has a ethernet card > installed (10-baseT?) to which I could plug in a cable with cable TV > fittings for ethernet. If there is a cable to RJ45 adapter I would like to > know about it. I could find a use for this one yet!
Welcome back, Kenneth! The ethernet card you are talking about uses a coaxial connector that may look a bit like cable tv hardware, but it's actually different; don't try to connect any cable tv hardware to it. Cable tv stuff uses screw-on (nominally, anyway) 75 ohm hardware, while ethernet cable (the most commonly encountered coaxial variety is known as thinnet) is 50 ohms, and uses bayonet-style connectors. The "T" in 10baseT stands for "twisted pair", which is the stuff that looks like phone cable on steroids (flat cable with RJ45 connectors). There is no cheap coax-to-twisted pair adaptor, I'm afraid. However, many ethernet hubs have a coax connector in addition to the RJ45 jacks. And those hubs seem to be readily available quite cheaply on the surplus market. I use this very arrangement with an old SE that sounds just like yours. It works amazingly well, although its presence makes our network folks scratch their heads. --Cheers, Tom -- Prof. Thomas H. Lee Center for Integrated Systems, CIS-205 420 Via Palou Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4070 http://www-smirc.stanford.edu 650-725-3709 ph, -3383 fax -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
