Has anyone used the ex-tend-it?

On 23 Dec 1997 16:14:18, "goo hound"  wrote:

Well, I recently had to face this issue, as I wanted to park the CPU
and external hard disk of my Mac system in the closet, in an insulated
box to quell the noise.

I found that I could get up to 18 feet of ADB connected cabling to
extend my keyboard with no loss in functionality, but the monitor is
another thing.  I can run a six foot heavy duty DB15 connected cable
that has ferrite beads on either end, with no picture degradation.  I
recently got a fifteen foot cable made up, but as it has no special
shielding, the image quality suffers to the point where I really can't
use it.  The place that made up the cable told me that had I sprung
for the expensive stuff - $10/foot - they would guarantee that I could
get a good picture.

As I'm only running a monochrome monitor on my Mac, I have found that
you can make up a cable using 75 ohm co-ax cable (two strands needed
to connect to four pins on the DB15), but I have not found any co-ax
that I can solder properly, and the whole thing now is working with
the shorter cable strung over some furniture with the closet door
open.  I'm going to get through the holidays before doing anything
more...

My two cents...

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