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- From: swt@therson.affinity.mn.org (Stephen W. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Networking? WHY?!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.001550.11444@therson.affinity.mn.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:15:50 GMT
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- References: <jbono.07v8@tension.UUCP> <1992Nov10.180858.17244@galois.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov10.180858.17244@galois.mit.edu> rlv@runge.mit.edu (Ralph Vinciguerra) writes:
- >Picture this: a computer lab in a high school (or college)
- >with one or two A3000's with large SCSI hard drives and alot of A500's
- >without hard drives networked to the servers.
- >This is a pleasant, LOW COST, solution
- >if only cheap network attachments were available for the A500's.
- >This is a productivity environment which uses low end machines.
-
- Even a better, lower cost solution is a A600 with a PCMCIA ethernet card. All
- that is currently missing is a driver for such a PCMCIA card.
-
- >I'm excited to read about the possibility for homebrew arcnet
- >adapter designs for the parallel port.....
-
- There are ethernet "cards" for the parallel port and I assume also arcnet
- cards. But again you would need a driver for the thing.
-
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