In a message dated 1/16/02 12:29:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
vze2wsvr_at_verizon.net writes:
> It is an ISA-16 card. It has a 68000, w/2 27128 EEPROMs, 16 1259-15 RAM
> chips
> and Intel
> chips, 82586 and 8253-5. The rest looks to be TTL, a couple of connectors
> and
> couple of
> crystals, 16 and 20 MHz.
>
> It was made by Bridge Communications, USA, in 1987. And it has a D-shell
> 15
> pin (like a
> Mac video -2 rows of pins) female connector on the back.
>
>
Could be an early AUI ethernet controller. The 82586 was intel's ethernet
co-processor. It worked with a CPU chip. Ungerman Bass used an 80186 with the
82586 in their ethernet ISA cards.
Bridge Communications also made boxes for bridging different systems and
standards.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
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