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to: JOHN DONOHUE
from: DANIEL RINSER
date: 1998-03-22 10:49:00
subject: Ancient network adapter

Hi John...
19-Mar-98 11:14:08, John Donohue wrote to Daniel Rinser
          Subject: Ancient network adapter
 DR>> I got two very old network adapters from a friend. 
 DR>> Unfortunately I don't have
 DR>> any drivers and the Win95 drivers don't work either.
 DR>> It's a
 DR>>  [right corner]
 DR>>  LANtastic 2.0Mb adapter, (c) 1989 ARTISOFT, Inc. USA
 DR>>  [left corner]
 DR>>  LANtastic V3.04
 DR>> Ever heard of this bloody thing?? Where do I get the drivers?
 JD> It's a proprietary 2mb per sec. ethernet adapter for Artisoft's 
 JD> Lantastic. 
Think so, too...
 JD> Microsoft networking will not support these. There is/was a Win95 
ersion
 JD> of
 JD> Lantastic, but I don't think it supports these cards either; they're 
rom
 JD> several Lantastic versions back.
Great... And what shall I do now??
[...]
 DR>> connect the next adapter
 DR>> and so on...
 JD> Yep. Daisy-chain. Like Coax.
Ok.
 DR>> Is that right?? If it is, how do I solder such a cable 
 DR>> (which pin on the one
 DR>> plug has to be connected with pin 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 on the second one) 
 JD> ??
 JD> Might still be cable diagrams on the Artisoft web site. www.artisoft.com
Ok, thanks a lot.. I'll search for them, but what's the use, if I don't
have any working drivers? I think I gonna buy some new adapters - some
'normal' ones - they've become so cheap in the last years...
Yours,
   Daniel
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