13 May
2010
13 May
'10
7:22 a.m.
Ben wrote:
I wonder if OS/8 on a PDP-8 will still be around in
+200 years?
No, but someone will have a DECTape labelded "Windows 2010 for the PDP-8"
along with a directory listing and an expert witness saying that it's
real.
Tim.
13 May
13 May
9:42 a.m.
New subject: Optical cards
Hi
Does anyone need an EISA optical link card set.
I got this nice 486 Dolch portable computer and it had
a two card set in it. There is some software for it on
the hard disk as well. I don't know if it is full host
software or just enough to get the link connected.
It is a two card set with an in/out optical connector
on each board and what looks like a regular 6 pin
eithernet on one board.
No manufacture. Some of the chips have PLAYER+
but I think that these are standard optical network chips.
Software has directorys like ENSNIFF and FDSNIFF.
Dwight
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10:06 a.m.
New subject: Optical cards
dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
Does anyone need an EISA optical link card set.
<snip>
It is a two card set with an in/out optical connector
on each board and what looks like a regular 6 pin
eithernet on one board.
While I'm not interested, can you please clarify what it is that you have?
Is this an ethernet card? If so, is it a 10base-FL card? There was
also an older FOIRL standard. Is it 100base-FX/SX ? Multimode 850nm or
1300nm optics?
Ethernet typically has an RJ45, which is an 8-pin modular connector.
Four pins are active for 10mb and 100mb on copper, pins 1&2 and 3&6.
Thanks
Keith
10:27 a.m.
New subject: Optical cards
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:06:44 -0400
From: keithvz at verizon.net
To: General at olddell.com
Subject: Re: Optical cards
dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
I just did a little more searching on the net.
It has a seperate Ethernet card that I'm sure is 10base. It has
the 8 pin RJ45, coax and connector to a eithernet driver for the old
triax cable.
It seems that this was intended to be a network analyser machine.
I see various similar machines on ebay. It was called a Network Sniffer.
I wouldn't know 850nm from 1300nm. The optical ports are retangular,
about 1.5x3/8 in.
I picked it up because it has a nice 486 that I can run my EP10
programmer from that is more compact than my desk top and monitor.
It has a 400Meg HD and color LCD.
A similar machine is ebay #330383454040 but with a different ethernet
card.
The keyboard is flakey ( multiple letters on some keys ) but
I can clean these up.
Dwight
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Hi
Does anyone need an EISA optical link card set.
<snip>
It is a two card set with an in/out optical connector
on each board and what looks like a regular 6 pin
eithernet on one board.
While I'm not interested, can you please clarify what it is that you have?
Is this an ethernet card? If so, is it a 10base-FL card? There was
also an older FOIRL standard. Is it 100base-FX/SX ? Multimode 850nm or
1300nm optics?
Ethernet typically has an RJ45, which is an 8-pin modular connector.
Four pins are active for 10mb and 100mb on copper, pins 1&2 and 3&6.
Thanks
Keith 
10:47 a.m.
New subject: Optical cards
If you pick up these network analyzer machines, the software licenses
were locked to the NIC cards. If they come wiped, you are out of luck
and likely will never need the NIC card. However companies like Dolch
used the NIC cards as license keys so when the NIC failed you were sol
getting supplrt w/o going to their service to get it replaced.
On 5/13/2010 7:27 AM, dwight elvey wrote:
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:06:44 -0400
From: keithvz at verizon.net
To: General at olddell.com
Subject: Re: Optical cards
dwight elvey wrote:
Hi
I just did a little more searching on the net.
It has a seperate Ethernet card that I'm sure is 10base. It has
the 8 pin RJ45, coax and connector to a eithernet driver for the old
triax cable.
It seems that this was intended to be a network analyser machine.
I see various similar machines on ebay. It was called a Network Sniffer.
I wouldn't know 850nm from 1300nm. The optical ports are retangular,
about 1.5x3/8 in.
I picked it up because it has a nice 486 that I can run my EP10
programmer from that is more compact than my desk top and monitor.
It has a 400Meg HD and color LCD.
A similar machine is ebay #330383454040 but with a different ethernet
card.
The keyboard is flakey ( multiple letters on some keys ) but
I can clean these up.
Dwight
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Hi
Does anyone need an EISA optical link card set.
<snip>
It is a two card set with an in/out optical connector
on each board and what looks like a regular 6 pin
eithernet on one board.
While I'm not interested, can you please clarify what it is that you
have?
Is this an ethernet card? If so, is it a 10base-FL card? There was
also an older FOIRL standard. Is it 100base-FX/SX ? Multimode 850nm or
1300nm optics?
Ethernet typically has an RJ45, which is an 8-pin modular connector.
Four pins are active for 10mb and 100mb on copper, pins 1&2 and 3&6.
Thanks
Keith
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