3Com's 3C300 was their 1st PeeCee NIC, it was a big card, contrast to
their later 503's and 509's which had a much higher level of
integration.
I'm told 3Com's very first product was a MultiBUS NIC (of which I have
two). Can't seem to find the docs for it, though.
OKay, for 100 bonus (bogus?) points:
What were the three Com's of 3Com?
Jeff
On Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:27:07 -0700 Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
writes:
> >Oldest PC ethernet cards?
> >-------------------------
> >Drifting slightly back on topic, which companies made the earliest
> ethernet
> >cards for PCs? How much did they originally cost?
>
> I've seen Ungerman-Bass AUI ethernet cards that were approximately
> $900
> new. There was also a company that got bought be 3COM that had an
> early
> NIC. Perhaps one of the cooler ones would be a 3 mbit card used at
> PARC to
> talk to their network.
>
> --Chuck
>
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