John Foust skrev:
>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 remember reading that when the cards were first introduced at some fair. I'd
have a whole lot of reading ahead of me before I'd find that reference again,
though.
>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.
Los Gatos?
>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.
I wonder if Hydra aren't still in business, they were awfully long-lived.
I suppose that the two connectors were supposed to be a novel idea, and
doesn't it seem just a little bit neater with two cables coming into their
designated connectors rather than a T piece with a lot of cable getting in the
way? It really could encourage broken networks, though, if someone ever needed
to move the computer. Besides, doesn't 10Base2 really dislike having any kind
of "drop" connections? I seem to recall that any length of cabling between the
NIC and the 10Base2 bus is seen as a bad idea.
OTOH, some Mac NICs (Farallons?) had two 10BaseT connectors, so that one could
make a daisy-chained TP network. Would be fun to have for showing-off
purposes.
BTW, the old Hydra "Amiganet" NIC really stinks, don't know if the one simply
called Hydra is any better.
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.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
We have support for the PMAGC-B's on pmax right? That is a PixelVision based
card right? I see Bt 463, that chip looks bigger than the 21164! Just looking
at it makes me want to write an Xserver!
Chris Tribo, NetBSD/pmax
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 10:10:48 BST