From: simon@moscow.uidaho.edu (Mike Simon)
Subject: Re: Please help identify this old 3Com Ethernet card
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In article <1qhvunINNhau@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:
|> I have an old 3Com ethernet card (PC AT Bus) that came out of a Apollo
|> workstation. I'm trying to identify it in order to use it on a PC.
|> 
|> The Assembly number is 4008-00 REV 2 and it is a 16 bit card, circa
|> 1985.  It has an AUI port as well as a BNC coax connection.  It has
|> selectable address for the BIOS, IO, DMA, and IRQ locations via berg
|> jumpers.  It also appears to have a Intel 80186 processor on board,
|> presumably for buffering. 
|> 
|> The ethernet chip appears to be an Intel 82586, a 48 pin DIP package. Is
|> this chip an equivalent to the 8390 used in some cards? There is also
|> a 68 pin PLCC chip, called a LINK+
|> 
|> Please  e-mail as I don't think this is of general interest.

My least favorite last line of a post.  Um, it is of general interest.
As I prepare to retire 22 Apollos myself, I'm looking for ways to 
recycle the useful parts.

Mike Simon  simon@moscow.uidaho.edu
