02-06-14 10:33 Kurt Weiske wrote to Ed Vance about Re: VM's

 KW> {at}MSGID: 
 -=> Ed Vance wrote to Paul Quinn <=-


 EV> The ISA network card in the 486 has SMC {at} 1992 ,  10 MHZ (Mc/s) printed
 EV> on the Top of the pc board, and it looks like it has a 20 Mc/s Crystal.

 EV> On the Bbottom of the pc board these numbers are printed:

 EV>   60-600406-002 REV A   and  "Certitied to Class B"
 EV>                              "FCC I.D.:  JI58013EWC"


 KW>  Those are Western Digital WD8013 cards - I ran a ton of them
 KW> back in the
 KW>  day as they had almost as good support as the NE2000s and were
 KW> supported
 KW>  under BSD, Minix and DOS.

Kurt,

Thank You!, I will look into learning about the WD8013 cards.

Tom Walker mailed Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to me long ago that
I hadn't placed on the 486 yet.

Would WFWG 3.11 have all I need to use my SMC card with IBM PC-DOS 7.0?

TIA

... One man can be pretty dumb but there ain't nothin' like teamwork.
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