Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!minow From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.misc Subject: Modular Plugs on Terminals -- warning Message-ID: <356@decvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 19:06:34 EST Article-I.D.: decvax.356 Posted: Sun Feb 5 19:06:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 10:08:59 EST References: <152@ihopb.UUCP> Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group Lines: 16 Just because the keyboard and screen are connected by what looks like a telephone extension cord with modular plugs, don't assume you can use a telephone extension cord to move the keybord further away. The current levels of some of the signals may well exceed the capacity of the cord, and you may have a non-working keybord as a result. For example, the cord Dec uses to connect the keybord to the screen in the DECmate II, Rainbow, Professional, and VT200 series is specially made for this application with appropriate current capacities. Martin Minow decvax!minow