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9 Nov 1997

On 1997-11-09 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to scottk5(a)ibm.net
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Kip Crosby wrote:
  At 03:34 11/8/97 GMT, you wrote:
 ....in my experience
with IBM network cards, if they're a round (i.e. BNC) connector,
they're probably the old "baseband" stuff that uses lots of coax cable
 >and a hub/amplifier, and work only with IBM PC-LAN Program
and  >NetBEUI....the number 2Mb/sec comes
 to mind....  Are we talking about Arcnet
here?  When I think 2Mb/sec, BNC
connector, and  8-bit bus, I think Arcnet, but there may have been others.... If the
cards are _branded_ IBM, chances are well over
ten to one that they are
Token Ring.  IBM never touched Arcnet, and was hesitant about
Ethernet. --
Ward Griffiths 
If any of those network cards ARE token-ring and have BNC connectors, I
would love to buy a couple. I got an old Token ring MAU several years ago
that has BNC ports and would like to try it out. Can't tell you how many
people have flat out denied that Token Ring was ever carried over coax!
But the existence of the MAU is proof enough that at one time it was done.

Kirk Scott
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