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- From: Anthony Moore <Anthony@ahmoore.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.amiga,demon.tech.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Home Network
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 96 11:14:45 GMT
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- Message-ID: <9604071114.AA0000f@ahmoore.demon.co.uk>
- References: <9604021643.AA002k7@llais.demon.co.uk> <4k3if2$11o@errigle.gpl.net> <4k7q5k$d4n@news.injersey.com>
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- In article <4k7q5k$d4n@news.injersey.com> jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy ) writes:
- >John Kennedy (johnk@infosys2.thegap.com) wrote:
- >> Rhiannon Macfie <rhiannon@llais.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- >> >At home, between us, we have:
- >
- >> >Amiga A500+ (I`m willing to bring my 4000 home if absolutely necessary,
- >> > but if there`s a way of getting the 500 in I`d rather that)
- >
- >> >PC Pentium
- >> >PC 486
- >
- >> You can stick ethernet cards in the PCs, and get one for the A4000 and
- >> run TCP/IP to make use of FTP and so on. Sharing printers is pretty
- >> much out though. You could also network the PCs (ethernet again) and
- >> use a serial link from the A500. Not much fun though.
- >
- >You could also use an Amiga ethernet card on the A500 by using a Zorro 2
- >adapter on the edge connector, I would think. Micro R&D makes one, the
- >Slingshot Pro.
-
- Yup, thats the one I meant, its called the bodega bay, and then you can use
- any Zorro 2 stuff (including scsi and ide hd controlers, so you can have a
- nice new HD at the same time:) (top tip: go for about a gig HD space)
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