DoN. Nichols wrote:
Well ... 25-pair cables *are* 50 wires, and the dots on solid
uniquely marked each wire in that count. (Aside from that, the two wires
in a pair were also twisted -- to minimize crosstalk to adjacent pairs.)
The twisting helps keep them together so you don't have to search
through 49 other wires to find the other half of a pair. :-)
Not only re he pairs twisted, but the twist rate varies from pair to
pair to reduce the crosstalk even further.
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They don't get mad.
They don't get even.
They go for over unity! ;-)