[techtalk] Biscuit jack?

[Amber]

take a look. I found a picture :)
http://www.levitontelcom.com/homeoffc/telephone.video/625A2.htm
and another
http://www.icc.com/vcs-Biscuit%20Jacks%20-%20Surface%20Mount%20Single%20w-Sh
orting%20Bar.htm
Hope that helps.
~Amber~
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wood, Mary" <conmwo at SoftwareAG-USA.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: [techtalk] Biscuit jack?


> Here's a hardware question I hope isn't too strange.  I'm doing a
contracted
> install tomorrow.  The call to do the job went something like this:
>
> Company: "Can you do a frame relay install for us next Monday?"
>
> Me:  <thought cloud> Frame Relay ... that's a networking term, right? No
> matter.  I know how to RTFM. <end thought cloud> "Sure I can!  Piece of
> cake!"
>
> As I RTFM, I keep seeing this term pop up ... "Under the cash wrap you
will
> find *biscuit jacks* with all their patch cables attached ... you will
find
> a patch cable connected to the BB-01 port on the *biscuit jack* on the
green
> board..."  What the hell is a biscuit jack?  I'm guessing once I get there
> and see the equipment, I'll figure it out.  But if someone can describe it
> or better yet point me to a picture of one, this nerve-grating term will
not
> grate so much.
>
> Personally, I think they just made it up.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Mary; no longer *brand* new to geekdom ... more like wet feet,
shin-deep.
>
>
>
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