[96647] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Cobalt Qube - anyone seen/used one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Levitsky)
Wed Oct 28 15:35:06 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:04:19 -0500
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From: Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <363764C7.89623B1@nook.net>
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When I worked at one ISP we used to take sportster modems and gut them. Put
the cases in a pile and we made mounting plates that looked like
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And the serial cable connected to the modem card would keep them locked to
the metal plate. Possibly the only bad thing was that when taking out a
modem you need to unplug the modems on either side of the one you are
taking out so you don't short them out by accidenly touching the cards
together.
When we got USRobotics Netservers I thought the world would be a happy
place for me, but the blasted things have 16 modems in them and all the
punchdown blocks I've ever seen group phone lines in blocks of 25. Argh! I
wish I had a RAS box that would have an amphernol port.... it would be so
nice if I could just connect the cable ... one cable.. from the punchdown
block to the RAS box and not have 25 wires all over the place.
-Josh
At 01:39 PM 10/28/98 , Ramon Gandia wrote:
>Michael Jinks wrote:
>
>> The Corel NetWinder is similarly sized, similarly priced, and reportedly
>> faster (according to Corel). It also has both 10bT and 100bT ethernet;
>> IIRC, the Qube is only 10bT, but I may be wrong about that.
>
>The Cobalt RaQ has 10/100 ethernet.
>
>The Netwinder, from the ads I've seen in LJ, is the funkiest,
>most UNMOUNTABLE, unrackable thing I've ever seen. If they have
>a Rack Mount version they better advertise 'cause its the main
>reason I have not even considered one.
>
>That reminds of my next favorite pet peeve. Modems and other
>devices that can't even stack. Like the USRobotics Sporsters,
>or the WebRamp M3 which is rounded at the top. They even make
>network hubs that way. Hey, it may be okay for toasters, but
>I think computers should be boxy, vented out the BACK, and
>stackable within reason. Anything else is BS. Any takers on this
>opinionated statement?
>
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