16 Aug
1999
16 Aug
'99
9:08 a.m.
I pulled this card out of a PC, it looks like some kind of LAN card but I've never
seen one like it. Can anyone tell me more about it? It's a full length card that plugs
into a 16 bit ISA slot. It has two large ICs on it. One is markled
"APOLLO004329" "TC17GO42AT". The other says "L1A3015
015935-0001" "BICAT 1". One th eback is a connector about the same size as
a DB-15 but it has a large contacts at each end and 5 regular size contacts in the center.
The large contacts looks like the same ones that are used in the 13W3 cable for a Sun
monitor.
Joe
16 Aug
16 Aug
7:58 a.m.
Joe Rigdon asks:
I pulled this card out of a PC, it looks like some
kind of LAN card but I've
never seen one like it. Can anyone tell me more about it? It's a full length
It's a NIC for the proprietary network used by Apollo on their workstations.
They used a token ring protocol, but it isn't "Token Ring".
8:24 a.m.
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17 Aug
17 Aug
10:02 a.m.
At 09:24 PM 8/16/99 +0100, you wrote:
Tony,
Yes, I'm positive that I pulled it from a PC. It was a Compaq 486/50 and I have it
here now. BUT, the computer was scrapped and someone may have stuck the card in there by
mistake.
Joe
I pulled this card out of a PC, it looks like some kind of LAN card but
I've never seen one like it. Can anyone tell me more about it? It's a full
I believe it's the network card used for the Apollo Domain Ring network. It's
a sort-of token ring, but non-standard.
They're normally found in Apollo workstations - are you sure you pulled
it from a PC. Some of the Apollos do look a lot like PCs, but have 68k
processors in them.
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