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- From: Mustang@vrb.com (Aaron Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Which Ethernet card to buy?
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 96 06:16:41
- Organization: Virtual Reality BBS
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960123.89F7D68.6038@vrb.com>
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- On Tue 16-Jan-1996 5:55p, Rask Lambertsen wrote:
- RL> Hi,
-
- RL> I just want to know which Ethernet board to buy (must have a connector
- RL> for a T-base-10 cable)?
-
- RL> A4066?
- RL> A2065?
- RL> Ariadne?
- RL> Hydra?
-
- RL> Some other board?
-
- Well, if your going to spend $250 on an ethernet card, you might want
- to look at the new DKB card. It gives you serial and parallel ports too.
-
-
- DKB's new Ethernet/4-8 Ser/1-2 Par card
-
- Fully Compat with serial.device
- compat with all modems
- supports MIDI devices and speeds
- runs 115,200bps on all 8 ports at once!
- supports multible cards in one machine
- RTS/CTS handshaking
- 4 serial ports
- upgradable to 8
- serial ports are 25-pin sub-D connectors
- stop bits 1 or 2
- data bits 5,6,7, or 8
- parity odd, even, none, mark, space
- Large **64 Byte** buffers to eliminate data loss!
-
- Parallel:
- Fully compatible with Parallel.device
- Compatible with all Standard Parallel printers
- port can handle 400k per second!
- Future support for the HP/MicoSoft IIP printer standards
- 1 parallel port
- upgradable to 2 ports
- Parallel ports are 25 pin sub-d connectors
-
- Ethernet
- Compat with Any Amiga with Zorro Slot
- comes with 10Base-T and 10Base-2 connectors
- 64kbyte buffer.
-
-
-
- The card is only going to run about $350 with 4 serial, 1 ethernet and
- 1 par port. can be upgraded to 8 serial, 2 par.
-
- "Amiga, computers for people who want more than just a PC."
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