At 08:20 PM 11/7/97 -0800, Kip Crosby wrote: Several makers made Arcnet cards, including ... looking... Thomas-Conrad, who made both 8-bit and 16-bit 1/2 and full length cards... My employer gave me 40+ cards and a 16-port active hub... unforch 30 or so cards give their lives admirably to my CoCo hacking habits (needed the DIP switches, DIP sockets, 74LS series chips, etc...) but I did save 10 or so cards, and plan on setting up an Arcnet network sometime during the winter. This is what I remember: max. 255 nodes per network, 2.5 Mbit speed (which is gangbusters over 19.2Kbit RS-232 which is what I have now) and the max. distance between active hubs you could run was nearly a kilometer, IIRC. BTW, I seem to recall (but this may not be correct) that 2Mbit speed with DB-9 connectors were Lantastic cards -- they were a built-in computer with a Z-80, RAM buffer, Z-80 support chips and an optional boot ROM I think. Anywho, hope this helps! Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed, Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* zmerch(a)northernway.net | be your first career choice.