9 Nov
1997
9 Nov
'97
10:25 a.m.
<If any of those network cards ARE token-ring and have BNC connectors, I
highly likely as IBM was a strong proponent for token ring.
<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.
Obviously they never saw any of the WANG system that used it as the default
interconnect to EVERYTHING even POS terminals!
Allison
10 Nov
10 Nov
4:11 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
<If any of those network cards ARE token-ring and
have BNC connectors, I
highly likely as IBM was a strong proponent for token ring.
I've been reading the Options and Adapters Technical Reference...
There was a card called the IBM PC Cluster Adapter. It was a full-length
8-bit card containing an Intel microcontroller (8035??), a couple of ROMs
(one for the microcontroller, one as a BIOS extension for the PC), logic
chips, etc. The only external connector looks to have been either a TNC
(screw-lock BNC-like thing) or an F-socket (like a cable TV connector).
Is that what you have? AFAIK it needs a special hub, and is not Token Ring
(or at least, not standard token ring).
Obviously they never saw any of the WANG system that
used it as the default
interconnect to EVERYTHING even POS terminals!
Is that the infernal Wang interface that used a BNC and a TNC connector on
every device?
Allison
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