19 Oct
2018
19 Oct
'18
1:53 p.m.
On 10/19/18 1:14 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
I used to have a bunch of Sytek gear, including a StatMon.? I once wrote
a program in C on a 3B2 to collect, display and analyze the data from the
StatMon.? I also, working with a good friend who now teaches at Texas A&M
(unless he finally retired!) helped write a program to function as a DNS for
a Sytek Network.? Delivered a paper on it at the Sytek Users Group
Conference
at NTSU in Denton, TX.? Good luck getting it running.? Hope you know a lot
about broadband networks because it ain't as easy as cable TV. :-)? I even
used to have a portable cable plant for explaining it to potential
customers.
Those were the days.? Sigh....
> IBM developed a Token Ring card for the PC in
time for its launch
IBM's initial networking for the PC (The PC Network) was
broadband, based
on technology from Sytek. 4Mb token ring was released later. Exact dates
are in the manuals on bitsavers.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/pc/pc_network/6322916_PC_Network_Technical_Ref…
Another project (sigh..) has been to collect all the parts to put a Sytek
network together.
I'm looking for a 50/50 Central Retransmission Unit, though I do have the
little brother to it that IBM sold for the PC Network.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/sytek/brochures/LocalNet_50_50_Central_Retransmiss…
bill