John Foust wrote: Approximately $2 per card. That doesn't include the two A2000s, one A2000 mother board, 12 megs of brand new 1 meg 30 pin SIMMS, a new Kickstart 3.1 ROM and a 33c93 SCSI chip. Also got several Apple 3.5" drives off the scrap pile, and a commodore 64 for keyboard parts. If I add all that, I guess the cost per card is about $1 to $1.50 depending on how you count your beans. Hope you're sitting down while reading that, and on oxygen. I still pinch myself thinking it is a dream . . . . Yeah, I thiught it was the dregs from NewTek, but one A2000 has a Washburn University (also in Topeka). If it was Newtek, why would they need ethernet with their Toasters??? I'm doing some research, and I'll let the list memebers know exactly where they came from, once I retrace the trail. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph

At 11:13 PM 4/12/2002 -0500, Gary Hildebrand wrote: Why does anyone need a network? Of course they used them. It certainly sounds like a haul from one location - or for that matter, maybe Newtek donated a bunch to Washburn, or when they left town. Yup, those Ethernet cards still fetch a few bucks on eBay. They're a must for keeping an Amiga useful these days. For that matter, I still think a Toaster would be a useful standalone at the average community access cable channel, as long as it could stay alive. It would also be a great platform for driving a community guide channel (text crawl, scroll, info pages, etc.) that was linked to the web and to e-mail. I daydream about doing that. I don't know if there's an easy way to do that on a PC these days. Once upon a time, I wrote the first version of the "Video Toaster for Windows". Like many apps, the Toaster was highly controllable via ARexx, and these commands could come in the serial port. Newtek needed a splash for COMDEX, so I wrote a GUI in Visual BASIC running on a PS/2. It spit out ARexx via the serial port to a Toaster under the table. It had some of the same functionality as the Amiga GUI, except it was driven under Windows. The sad fact is that it won the "Best New Product of the Show" crystal trophy at that COMDEX. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, or to the Amiga under the table skirt. - John