Free Arcserve Parts (Was: Re: Semi-OT: Running CAT5 Cables) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Oct 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Costanzo &lt;lance(a)costanzo.net&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: Free Arcserve Parts (Was: Re: Semi-OT: Running CAT5 Cables)
...
 At 05:58 PM 10/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>It was thus said that the Great Lance Costanzo once stated:
>>
>> This talk of 10b2 reminded me of something.
>> I've got an arcserve hub, some cables (laying in my driveway),
>> and about a 1/2 dozen arcserve cards in some old 5150's.
>> I have absolutely no use or software for them.
>> Free for the shipping (from California).
>
>  Is this the same as Arcnet?  I would like to get my Tandy6000s networked
>up and I know you can get Arcnet cards, although I've heard that the
>interoperability between them and PC based arcnet cards leaves something to
...
  be desired.
My faw-paw.
Yes, it is Arcnet.   Arcserve is the backup software by Cheyenne.
first hit out of altavista searching on arcnet:
http://www.blackbox.nl/techweb/lan/arcnet/arcnet.htm
 ARCnet is a Token Passing Bus, much but not
exactly like IEEE802.4. It was 
originally developed by Datapoint Corporation 
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEE
DATAPOINT!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEE
The legislature was filled with that , that, that , that ^&*@#^& until 1989.
Datapoint had NO security.
You could put a NEW printer on the network and name it the SAME as another
printer already there (Xerox 4040s I think!??!?!) and EVERY job would be
printed on your new printer as well as the old one and NO ONE would know.
and those 345 MB
drives........................................................
john
...
  in 1977 as a
hard disk interface but later used for LAN. DataPoint, Standard Microsystems
Corporation (SMC) and Pure
 Data are (were) the main players in the field.

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