> Bill Pechter skrev:
>
> >> 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.
>
> >Sounds like standard token-ring to me.
>
> I've found the possibility of an Amiga TR NIC so impossible that I never
> considered that. Are you certain?
Well, they used DB9 connectors, used relays into the MAU (the token-ring
hub equivalent), the word Ring on the PCB. Sounds possible.
A lot of cable tv shops used IBM S34/S36/S38's for billing and records.
They also used Amiga's for Video slide generation for their add and
notices chanels.
So I figured they may have had Token-Ring boards for the Amiga.
--Bill
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Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 14:14:33 BST