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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Old (hardware) are hard to break
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:07:17 -0600
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, northern snowfall wrote:

> Do I need to cap the naked side of the T connector in
> some fashion?

you need a 50-ohm terminator on the empty side, or the electrons will leak
out, fall on the floor, and fill the room up, and then you won't be able
to breath.

ron