r. 'bear' stricklin skrev:
>On 23 Jun 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> BTW, a while ago I looked at a very old 3Com full-length card. The PCB
>> was a rich blue, much like the 3C501, but that's a small eight-bit ISA
>> card, this one was full-length. For some reason the seller thought he
>> could ask more for this card than the 3C509s of another seller, so I
>> skipped them. Otherwise, they would have been a nice curiosity.
>Chances are good that these were 3C505 cards, which you need to make an
>ISA-bus Apollo workstation speak ethernet.
That really sounds possible, since I got a d?j? vu feeling when I looked at an
Apollo gallery, only I didn't know they used ISA.
>Better still if they had the boot ROMs on them, which would have made them
>real Apollo parts and thus capable of netbooting same.
Don't know. I think the trader appears from time to time at the market, so it
could make sense to be on the lookout. Now, if only I had an Apollo to plug
them into, it would make more sense.
BTW, does anyone know anything about Bay networking systems?
I once bought a big, white case at the fleamarket, which had been in service
at a power station. One label said "LAN BRIDGE REPEATER" or something to that
effect, and when I finally wedged it open, it seemed to be a VME system. The
"main" board had two 68020s, one at 16 and one at 20 or 24 MHz. The system
also had a floppy drive, which was accessed at startup, and spome status
lights. Other boards had several serial ports, AUI and some other ports which
I couldn't recognise. The case had once been rackmouted, and had the mounting
brackets still.
Bay have since been bought by another companym which in turn has been bought
by yet another, which made finding information about it quite impossible. Why
do people feel such a desire to dismantle the web sites of conquered
companies?
Unfortunately, I had to throw it away when I moved to my new, cramped home. =(
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Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 08:20:48 BST