Token ring (UK)

From: nedry <nedry_at_mail.bedlambells.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 13:59:01 2003

My company is still all 16 meg token ring. The cards (both PCMCIA and PCI) are still available from Madge (we just bought five PCI Cards) and cost over ?100 each. Ouch.

I've got my laptop set up with both e-net and token ring PCMCIA cards, and it works great, with both Slackware and Windows 2000... although making Slackware work ment some manual editing of config files...

Take Care,

Mark

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jules Richardson<julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:10:34 +0100 (BST)

>Yep, Madge and IBM (obviously) made ISA boards. I believe they both
>made PCMCIA cards too (IBM certainly did, I still have one
>somewhere). My old company were exclusively 16Mbit token-ring up
>until about three years ago (and crying out for leads on spare parts
>back then).
>
>Support for anything other than a Windows/DOS PC was pretty much non-
>existant though and as we started using more and more Unix hardware
>(and the odd Mac, and Linux on x86) on projects I ended up throwing a
>bit of Ethernet into the pot, and things gradually started going that
>way by the time I left.
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 13:59:01 BST