re centris to decstation e net adapter pnsf dw smucs umassd edu dennis j wilkinson writes not necessarily a thrid party adapter apple does manufacture transceivers for thinwire and baset twisted pair cable media as well as an aui attachment unit interface transciever they run at each if you use thinwire or baset you ll probably also need terminators apple s transceivers are self terminated if i remember correctly but i have no idea about decs the third party media adapters are usually cheaper at least in toronto than apple s i bought the adapters from asante instead of apple gurman umbra gsfc nasa gov joseph b gurman writes the decstation models and come with thinwire only can t say for certain about the models and so your best bet that s not true only the decstation comes with a thinwire bnc coaxial ethernet connector the and all have a single pin aui ethernet connector only i distinctly remembered this because when got the first and i thought all of them are going to be thinwire i eventually had to go back and ordered destas dec s oversized version of an aui to bnc adapter that must be used with a transciever cable for the rest of the stations my advise to the very original poster beverly is if all you want is to create a lan with two workstations and won t add machines to it ever go for thinwire regardless of the media type going for utp unshielded twisted pair wiring requires a concentrator which means extra money and i believe these units come with at least ports as for thicknet it s a nightmare and cabling is expensive avoid it unless you have no choice e g the two machines are two floors parts on the mac side you will need one thinwire media adapter from apple or third party macx make sure you get version won t run on system mactcp which comes with macx if you get macx v you should be getting mactcp v with it don t use earlier versions on a centris you may or may not need a ohm terminator depending on the thinwire media adapter so just ask the sales if the adapter is self terminated or not configure mactcp to use ethernet on the decstation side you will need for a model you will only need a t connector for models you will need an aui to bnc adapter get one that can be plugged in directly to the aui port of the decstation this way you save the cost of a transciever cable a pin aui male to a pin aui female cable get a ohm terminator your two machine network will look like this t decstation centris or t decstation centris ohm terminator t t connector thinwire rg coaxial cable aui to bnc i e thick to thin adapter thickwire media adapter assuming self terminated andy andy sun andy ie utoronto ca taddle creek road toronto computing coordinator ontario canada m s a department of industrial engineering phone university of toronto fax
