16 May
2015
16 May
'15
4:29 a.m.
I picked up an Olivetti M24 the other day. When I opened it up I found a
"Fox Research LAN Interface" dated 1984. I have not been able to find any
information on this card. It has a make DE-9 connector with only 3 pins
(technically does that make it a DE-3?). Can anyone give me any details of
this interface?
The machine does not have the expansion board, and it is missing one of the
floppy disk drives. It also does not have a hard disk controller. If anyone
has any of these bits going spare I would love to hear from you.
Thanks
Rob
16 May
16 May
12:23 p.m.
On 05/16/2015 04:29 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
I picked up an Olivetti M24 the other day. When I
opened it up I found a
"Fox Research LAN Interface" dated 1984. I have not been able to find any
information on this card. It has a make DE-9 connector with only 3 pins
(technically does that make it a DE-3?). Can anyone give me any details of
this interface?
I believe that that's an old 10Net card--essentially a 1Mbit protocol
over twisted pair. Popular briefly in the 80s mostly because it claimed
to be secure.
Maybe there are protocol converters out there, but they'd probably be
pretty scarce.
--Chuck
1:49 p.m.
On May 16, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
On 05/16/2015 04:29 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
Secure by obscurity, or was there some actual basis for that claim?
paul
I picked up an Olivetti M24 the other day. When I
opened it up I found a
"Fox Research LAN Interface" dated 1984. I have not been able to find any
information on this card. It has a make DE-9 connector with only 3 pins
(technically does that make it a DE-3?). Can anyone give me any details of
this interface?
I believe that that's an old 10Net card--essentially a 1Mbit protocol over twisted
pair. Popular briefly in the 80s mostly because it claimed to be secure.
3:31 p.m.
On 05/16/2015 01:49 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
Secure by obscurity, or was there some actual basis
for that claim?
The company, ISTR, was founded by an ex-CIA guy, so maybe that had
something to do with it.
10Net software could run on pretty much any hardware (I think there was
a version for DEC equipment) but Fox's big market success was in the
"cheap net PC area. You could get a kit with a card, cable and software
for less than $200, which was a bargain back then.
They were eventually purchased by DCA.
--Chuck
4:40 p.m.
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Subject: Re: Olivetti M24 LAN Interface
On 05/16/2015 04:29 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
secure.
I picked up an Olivetti M24 the other day. When I
opened it up I found
a "Fox Research LAN Interface" dated 1984. I have not been able to
find any information on this card. It has a make DE-9 connector with
only 3 pins (technically does that make it a DE-3?). Can anyone give
me any details of this interface?
I believe that that's an old 10Net card--essentially a 1Mbit protocol over
twisted pair. Popular briefly in the 80s mostly because it claimed to be
Maybe there are protocol converters out there, but they'd probably be
pretty
scarce.
--Chuck
Can't say I had ever heard of 10Net before. And searching for it doesn't
turn up much. Just as you say converters would be hard to find, I suspect
finding software will be non-trivial too.
Still, the M24 itself seems to work reasonably well, although I think the
keyboard may need some attention as some of the characters don't seem to
register very well, hopefully just the contacts that need cleaning.
Regards
Rob
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