Token ring (UK) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Jul 2003

My company is still all 16 meg token ring.  The cards (both PCMCIA and PCI) are still
available from Madge (we just bought five PCI Cards) and cost over ?100 each.  Ouch.

I've got my laptop set up with both e-net and token ring PCMCIA cards, and it works
great, with both Slackware and Windows 2000... although making Slackware work ment some
manual editing of config files...

Take Care,

Mark

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jules Richardson&lt;julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk&gt;
Date:  Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:10:34 +0100 (BST)

...
 Yep, Madge and IBM (obviously) made ISA boards. I
believe they both 
made PCMCIA cards too (IBM certainly did, I still have one 
somewhere). My old company were exclusively 16Mbit token-ring up 
until about three years ago (and crying out for leads on spare parts 
back then). 

Support for anything other than a Windows/DOS PC was pretty much non-
existant though and as we started using more and more Unix hardware 
(and the odd Mac, and Linux on x86) on projects I ended up throwing a 
bit of Ethernet into the pot, and things gradually started going that 
way by the time I left. 