Cromemco Dazzler

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Sun Feb 21 23:21:47 1999

>On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
>> I was digging throught the pile of "stuff" from days of old, and find I
>> have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
>
>Certainly do. Just ran across some Cromemco manuals at the Junque
>shop - a HD5 hard disk and most interestingly, a Cromemco Network
>Interface, dated April 83, chock full of details. Appearently they
>used their own propriatary 'C-Net' (twin-ax), only does 500 kbits/s
>but I guess it was cheaper than Ethernet at the time - chart
>compares $1000/node for c-net vs $6000/node for Ethernet (hard to
>imagine now that we're buying 100Mbps nics for <$30!)

I have some Mac Nubus cards with a switch that selects Cnet or normal
ethernet.(might be token, I could look if anyone was real curious).
Received on Sun Feb 21 1999 - 23:21:47 GMT