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- From: morphy@cco.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy)
- Subject: Re: Token Ring Card for S-bus
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.125424.1132@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- References: <1992Aug19.130541.23482@philabs.philips.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:54:24 GMT
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- add@philabs.philips.com (Aninda V. Dasgupta) writes:
-
- >I have been shopping around for a Token Ring card for my
- >SPARCstation IPX. Most vendors have cards for the VME
- >buses and cost approximately $3000 (with driver). I need
- >a card for the S-Bus and have found one made by Aurora Inc.
- >and selling for $1000.
-
- I hope you're using shielded twisted pair if you buy a Sun Token-Ring card. I
- just stayed up till 10 last night trying to get one to work, only to find that
- it doesn't support unshielded twisted pair in noisy environments, like say
- a Wall St trading floor with cables running everywhere...
- Jones
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