[time-nuts] Lucent RTFG-u DE-9 connectors

[Hal Murray]

golgarfrincham at gmail.com said:
> I saw a lot of these quick locking connector shells on industrial routing
> equipment in the 1990s and hated them. 

They were part of the early Ethernet specs.  That was back in the days of 1/2 
inch coax, vampire taps, transcievers, and drop cables.  They got a horrible 
reputation for being unreliable because a major vendor of workstations but an 
extra washer in the stack.  (Or something like that.  It was a long time ago.)

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