3Mb Ethernet

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 07:35:27 2001

At 01:04 PM 4/24/01 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>>I have some ARCnet cards for PC and one for the Amiga 500. It was popular
>>for a while for early LAN parties because when DOOM came out, there was IPX
>>support and ARCnet cards were cheap and easy to set up.
>
>Silly old Commodore also decided that it were to be the official Amiga network
>standard. Mind you, it was cheaper, but quite useless in an Ethernet world.

I don't remember that CBM tried to enforce a standard.
I doubt it would've been pushed by CBM/Amiga engineers who
were daily using VAXes and Suns.

I may still have an ARCnet A2000 card somewhere. I've begun
to clean out the basement troves in preparation for a series
of eBay auctions. I'll be unloading some rare items like
t-shirts from the first through the 1993 developer conferences,
and the t-shirt from the first "Amiga wake" held at Dale Luck's
house in 1987 when they closed the Los Gatos office.

I also found a Hydra rev 1.0 Ethernet card for the A2000.
I've always thought it was unusual because it as two BNC
as well as an AUI port. Can anyone else remember Ethernet
cards with two BNC like this? Were 10base2 "T" connectors rare?
I believe Hydra was a UK company, if that matters.

- John
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 07:35:27 BST