26 Mar
2002
26 Mar
'02
6:04 a.m.
Rumor has it that Heinz Wolter may have mentioned these words:
According to google: "coded data
transciever".
- a Manchester coder rather than anything crypto..
It can be used with an 8530 SCC, 1-3Mbit rate,
used in star lans, tokem rings and point to point comms.
Brain goes Ping, Ping...
[snip]
> Just found a board with few am7960 on them.
> Anybody knows what that is ?
> Datasheet ?
>
> It "smells" like an ethernet controller, but didn't find anything
> on the net about it. (to old I guess)
Ping, Ping... brain goes again...
Judging from the info, I think I've seen that chip before... I have a bunch
of ArcNet cards & an active hub in my basement that I'd bet dollars to
doughnuts uses that chip... 2.5Mbit star network setup - what was nice is
that between active hubs, it'll run a kilometer on thin coax. (Watch out -
it uses 75 ohm terminators, not the 50 ohm of thinnet ethernet!)
That's why I saved a few cards & the hub: just never know when Ethernet's
too fast, and won't go far enough...
Search for "Thomas-Conrad" IIRC - they were a *big* maker of ArcNet
equipment...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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