Hello Hal!
22 Oct 97 09:55, Hal Roney wrote to Jonathan Hunter:
 JH>> I've got three Arcnet cards (SMC) lying around here, that I'm
 JH>> itching to pla with - just for fun :-)
 HR> Sounds like anything BUT fun to me. 
Well, it'll be interesting at the very least..
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 HR> Damage I wouldn't worry about.  The larger issue is expense
 HR> of connectivity.  Let's see...one card in the server, purchase an
 HR> Active Hub, two cards left for workstations.  Now you have two
 HR> workstations that can hit the server at the blinding speed of 2.5Mb/s.
 HR> (alibi, from a LONG way away)
How far, just out of interest?
 HR> I think you'll find that Ethernet cards are just to cheap to warrant
 HR> playing with those antiques.  That's just MY opinion.
 HR> Good luck with your project though,
Thanks! This isn't really a major project, I just had these cards lying 
around and I wanted to get a feel for how Arcnet works/worked. I've now set 
up my "development" Linux box, with Arcnet and Ethernet cards in, so I'll use 
that as a router between the two networks.
Thanks for your reply,
Jonathan 
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