[time-nuts] Strange connectors

Bill Hawkins bill at iaxs.net
Mon Jun 20 20:38:47 UTC 2005


Ah, yes, incompetence explains it. I'd never seen twinax
connectors in use, but there's a twinax antenna connector
on the back of my 1955 R-390 receiver that fits an IBM
connector.

Twin BNC has one each male and female pin with a split
level insulator that exposes the male pin (hope this
gets through your spam checker).

Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: phk at critter.freebsd.dk [mailto:phk at critter.freebsd.dk]On Behalf Of
Poul-Henning Kamp
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 2:59 PM
To: bill at iaxs.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Strange connectors


In message <00f501c575d0$77ce8e00$0500a8c0 at darius.domain.actdsltmp>, "Bill
Hawk
ins" writes:

>Turns out that twinax is the IBM token ring cable and connector
>that screws in.

Actually, that's not the case.

"Twinax" was the shielded twisted pair 5250 terminal bus for Series/3
(System 34, 36 & 38) "MiniMainFrames" from IBM.

The original IBM connector was more or less N-style.

Shielded twisted pair as a concept has been known for a lot longer
however the oldest use I know off was for microphones in the pre
WWII time frame.

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