21 Feb
1999
21 Feb
'99
6:21 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I have some Mac Nubus cards with a switch that selects Cnet or normal
ethernet.(might be token, I could look if anyone was real curious).
I was digging throught the pile of
"stuff" from days of old, and find I
have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
Certainly do. Just ran across some Cromemco manuals at the Junque
shop - a HD5 hard disk and most interestingly, a Cromemco Network
Interface, dated April 83, chock full of details. Appearently they
used their own propriatary 'C-Net' (twin-ax), only does 500 kbits/s
but I guess it was cheaper than Ethernet at the time - chart
compares $1000/node for c-net vs $6000/node for Ethernet (hard to
imagine now that we're buying 100Mbps nics for <$30!)