long cables

Mark Bartelt sysmark at aurora.physics.utoronto.ca
Fri Jun 28 23:47:11 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jun27.181436.7012 at helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
mark at cita.toronto.edu {hey! that's me!} writes:

| SGI sells a 75-foot set of cables (RGB+keyboard), but the price
| is exorbitant (CDN$600 up here; no idea what it costs in the US).
|
| So ...  Are the specs for these cables available (e.g. what type
| of coax, BNCs, etc.)?  If they are, we can have the folks in our
| electronics shop make us a set at a tiny fraction of SGI's cost.

I've gotten a couple of replies (thanks, folks), and will probably
be having something made up.  However, one other possibility springs
to mind:  After posting the previous article, I said to myself, "you
twit, why not look at the cables and see whether there's any sort of
identifying information there", which I did.  The coax*3 used to make
the RGB cable is from C&M Corporation, AWM style 2919.  I presume that
this would be the correct type of cable to use if/when we make our own
(I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong).  However, the cable also
has a tag on it, indicating that it was manufactured by Qual-Tronix.
So, I think to myself, perhaps I could just call them up and ask them
whether they have ready-made RGB cables in the length that I want (and
at a somewhat more reasonable price than SGI's).  Problem is, I have no
idea where they are.  Does anyone know how to get in touch with them?
Or even what city they're in?  Thanks in advance.

Mark Bartelt                                              416/978-5619
Canadian Institute for                           mark at cita.toronto.edu
Theoretical Astrophysics                         mark at cita.utoronto.ca



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