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- From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Networking?
- Message-ID: <37017@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:37:33 GMT
- References: <009635F3.E97CE580@rhea> <1992Nov10.005421.6576@zds-oem.zds.com> <1992Nov12.183712.11344@wicat.com>
- Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Nov12.183712.11344@wicat.com> gsarff@wicat.com (Gary Sarff) writes:
- >easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
- >
- >>In article <009635F3.E97CE580@rhea> treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE writes:
- >>>Dear Hardware Hackers,
- >>>As our Amiga section is loosing ground in our local computer club, we
- >>>need some sort of networking capability to connect to our club network.
- >>>Is there a way to connect an Amiga 500 to either Arc- or Ethernet?
- >>>I've got the SANA-II-drivers on my disk, but all I've seen in the
- >>>hardware section are Network boards for the ZORRO-II, and nothing,
- >>>except a preliminary schematics for an arcnet connection on the parallel
- >>>port, which would connect to an A500.
- >> I guess I should admit that I drew up the schematic for the parallel
- >>port Arcnet adapter. Funny how that thing gets around. I'm glad I
- >>marked it preliminary, since last week a little birdie visited my...
- >
- >There are arcnet cards that fit on the expansion port on an amiga 500
- >I have some of them. I also have some that fit in a slot in the 2000. This
- >is at work, but we have had the cards since at least mid 1988, when I was
- >hired, and a bit before that. Part of a discontinued project to use amiga
- >500's as low cost color graphics terminals to run our educational courseware.
- >I have been trying to find out who made these cards and if they are
- >compatible with any software, but have not had any success.
-
- Are they just cards or are they in a metal box? Are they C= A560's? If
- so, then the latest sana2developer.lzh archive that I _just_ sent to ESCO
- has an A2060 SANA-II driver that will work with those and allow you to run
- any SANA-II compliant software with them :)
-
- Brian
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- Brian Jackson Amiga Networking Group, Commodore-Amiga Inc.
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