24 Apr
2001
24 Apr
'01
1:44 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Rumor has it that Mike Ford may have mentioned these
words:
At least in the PeeCee world, every arcnet card I've ever seen had an 8-up
DIP switch to set the Arcnet address - IIRC you can only have 256 arcnet
cards on a network.
Also, virtually every one that I have seen carries a flat epoxy coated
1x2" circuit package with 20-pins along one of the long edges.
- don
> I have a PureData Arcnet hub that I picked up
in a thrift. It has 8BNC
>connectors and 2 RJ11's labelled Arclink. It's dated Aug/90.
> It came with a fuse missing and I've never had the occasion or
motivation
to
check it
out, nor the Arcnet NICs for that matter.
What should I look for on a network card that would mark it as ARCNET
instead of just coax something else? HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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