3Mb Ethernet

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 11:01:58 2001

At 04:10 PM 4/24/01 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>>and the t-shirt from the first "Amiga wake" held at Dale Luck's
>>house in 1987 when they closed the Los Gatos office.
>
>Los Gatos?

Yes, that's where Amiga Corp. was, in Silicon Valley.

I'm one of the guys who stole the big "Amiga" sign from the
front of the building when they closed. It went to Paul Montgomery's
garage, and from there went to Topeka, and I think it must be
in Austin by now.

>BTW, the old Hydra "Amiganet" NIC really stinks, don't know if the one simply
>called Hydra is any better.

Yes, that's the card I found. There must've been a reason
it wasn't in use inside an A2000. :-)

>BTW2: Does the name "Amigalink" ring a bell? Someone in the usergroup brought
>a full-length Zorro card with a D9 connector, apparently some kind of NIC. It
>dates from 1988 and I think it's copyrighted to "Designs by small" or
>something like that. The card features amongst others a clicky relay. The D9
>is supposedly plugged into some kind of transceiver device and chained to hte
>next card. I think it's some kind of ring topology, ISTR the word RING
>screened onto the PCB.

I'd guess that was Dave Small, the same guy who did the Atari
and Amiga versions of the "Magic Sac" emulators of the Macintosh.

- John
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 11:01:58 BST