Retro networking / WAN communities

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/11/22 9:55 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> I am not sure what the actual distinction is, but a 'managed bridge' 
> turned up at the local antique market (!) some weeks back. It has a 
> pair of AUI ports and from the amount of logic/processor power inside 
> it does a lot more than just pass packets from one port to the other,

Would you be willing to share pictures?

> The main board contains a pair of ethernet interfaces (AM7990 based), 
> a 68020 processor, ROM, RAM, etc. A board on top of of it called the 
> 'FLUT' (Frame Look Up Table?) contains a CY7C901 (16 bit slice ALU -- 
> think of it as 4 off 2901 + carry loglc), a 29C10 seqencer, etc

Hum....

> After removing the leaking NiCd from the mainboard and repairing the 
> corroded tracks it powers up and passes the self-tests. No idea what 
> I'll use it for, but...

That seems like it would be an interesting piece of networking history 
to own.  If you're into that sort of thing.  ;-)



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