17 Oct
2002
17 Oct
'02
9:20 a.m.
Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this eBay auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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17 Oct
9:43 a.m.
At 07:21 PM 10/17/02, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this eBay
auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
Just guessing but is it a PC on a card to run inside your GS?
Rob
10:13 a.m.
> Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this
eBay auction?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
Just guessing but is it a PC on a card to run inside
your GS?
Ugh. I'm not ruining my IIgs like that. :-P
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10:20 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Rob Hamadi wrote:
At 07:21 PM 10/17/02, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Nope.
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Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this eBay
auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
Just guessing but is it a PC on a card to run inside your GS? 
9:44 a.m.
It seems to be a Corvus Omninet Transporter Network Card. Google turned up
42 hits, 2 of which were this question previously asked on this list. It
wants to talk to a Corvus shareable drive of some sort. Don't know what
protocol it uses, but I'd expect it to be RS-485 or some other balanced pair
type media.
--John
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Behalf Of Sellam Ismail
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 14:21
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Subject: What is this?
Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this eBay auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
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Festival
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9:55 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
It seems to be a Corvus Omninet Transporter Network
Card. Google turned up
42 hits, 2 of which were this question previously asked on this list. It
wants to talk to a Corvus shareable drive of some sort. Don't know what
protocol it uses, but I'd expect it to be RS-485 or some other balanced pair
type media.
Sounds reasonable; but are the connectors on the card consistent with that
hypothesis?
10:10 a.m.
I think so. I have vague recollections of these cards, along with the
Corvus drives. The red molex connector on the left is the network
connector. Why they put it on that end, instead of where it might hang out
the slots only Corvus knows. It's a three wire connector, but I don't
remember if it's half duplex balanced pair, or full duplex single ended.
--John
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 14:57
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: What is this?
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
It seems to be a Corvus Omninet Transporter Network
Card. Google turned
up
42 hits, 2 of which were this question previously
asked on this list. It
wants to talk to a Corvus shareable drive of some sort. Don't know what
protocol it uses, but I'd expect it to be RS-485 or some other balanced
pair
type media.
Sounds reasonable; but are the connectors on the card consistent with that
hypothesis?
10:30 a.m.
I never used a Corvus network with Apples, but I did use it with PC's
and DEC Rainbows. I understand they had network cards for "a lot" of
different systems.
The network drive we had had no monitor or keyboard, it was just a big
box with a hard drive. Actually, there were two boxes stacked, but I
don't know what they did. I assume one was the hard drive, and the other
had all the network connectors on it.
You configured the drive (partitions, user access, etc) through software
running on a client.
I think the network was a star arrangement... Each workstation had a
dedicated line running back to the main unit.
I remember those little red connectors - they came unplugged pretty
easily.
- Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of J.C. Wren
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 3:12 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: What is this?
I think so. I have vague recollections of these cards, along
with the Corvus drives. The red molex connector on the left is the
network connector. Why they put it on that end, instead of where it
might hang out the slots only Corvus knows. It's a three wire
connector, but I don't remember if it's half duplex balanced pair, or
full duplex single ended.
--John
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 14:57
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: What is this?
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
It seems to be a Corvus Omninet Transporter Network
Card.
Google
turned
up
42 hits, 2 of which were this question previously
asked on this list.
It
wants to talk to a Corvus shareable drive of some
sort. Don't know
what
protocol it uses, but I'd expect it to be RS-485
or some other
balanced
pair
type media.
Sounds reasonable; but are the connectors on the card consistent with
that hypothesis?
12:48 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this eBay
auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
--- "J.C. Wren" <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote:
It seems to be a Corvus Omninet Transporter Network
Card...
It wants to talk to a Corvus shareable drive of some sort. Don't know
what protocol it uses, but I'd expect it to be RS-485 or some other
balanced pair type media.
Bingo. I have a Corvus enclosure and DE-9 transceivers from the first
Mac installation at my Mother's typesetting shop (late 1980s). The
drive is a FH 5.25" mech in a shoebox with a PSU and Corvus Omninet
board. ISTR it uses a Walkman-style connector from node to node.
ISTR it died before she gave it to me. Not sure if the HD mech
went Tango-Uniform or the PSU or the Omninet board.
She replaced it with 18-20MB drives in/next to each Mac. She continued
to use the Mac 512Ks she purchased at the same time as the Corvus drive
until she closed up shop, c. 1997 (but those particular Macs had been
upgraded (officially) to 512Ke (new drive and ROMs) and had a Dove
Snap installed, giving them 1MB total and SCSI).
-ethan
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10 a.m.
Can anyone identify the Apple ][ card in this eBay
auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2061361635
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