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Token Ring fanboys meeting

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  • 16-02-2007 11:47am
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    oscarBravo
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    watty wrote:
    ...IBM AS/400 mainframe...
    I've got one under my desk right now (taking up valuable knee room). It's only got a Token Ring network adapter. I demand that my ISP give me a TR-compatible modem...


    ...oh wait, I am my ISP...


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    crawler
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    oscarBravo wrote:
    I've got one under my desk right now (taking up valuable knee room). It's only got a Token Ring network adapter. I demand that my ISP give me a TR-compatible modem...


    ...oh wait, I am my ISP...

    I am sure good old Madge will be able to knock one up for you!! :)

    http://www.madge.com/

    May even make you a WiFi enabled one too :D


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    watty
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    I did once knock up a TR to ethernet Bridge using a 486-66 & NT4.0 I still have a bunch of ISA 16Mbps TR adaptors, a Mau (or was it a Cow? Some kind of hub ring thingy for T/R) and sundry RJ45, 9pin and Haemaphoditic T/R connectors.

    I wonder is it worth sticking it all on eBay. Along with the 8" floppy drive and Baby AT clone 16MHz 286 Motherboards.

    If it's ADSL and ethernet, then Vista Certification is irrelevent. Even Vista can connect to ANY ethernet based IP network. Unless you got some wierd non-Vista compatible HW that has an unsupported built in Network port?

    Out of curiousity I installed a USB stack on NT4.0 once, of course even though the Win2K drivers would have worked they wouldn't install because the OS signature was wrong. I later installed the driver on W2K, copied all the files and registry entries to the NT4.0 system and indeed the USB scanner did work.

    I'm sure though that this approach of manually installing a driver won't work to get an XP driver on Vista. It's only for lunatics anyway. Vista already has fairly identical USB to XP, so if the driver won't install it is not going to work.


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    oscarBravo
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    watty wrote:
    I did once knock up a TR to ethernet Bridge using a 486-66 & NT4.0 I still have a bunch of ISA 16Mbps TR adaptors, a Mau (or was it a Cow? Some kind of hub ring thingy for T/R) and sundry RJ45, 9pin and Haemaphoditic T/R connectors.
    I built a bridge myself - Pentium-90 running Debian and bridge-utils. I scavenged it for parts and haven't bothered replacing it; I never turn the '400 on. MAU is the correct term - Multistation Access Unit. Like a hub, but passive - powered by the ring itself.



    Could we be any more off topic?


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    watty
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    oscarBravo wrote:

    Could we be any more off topic?

    Well, I think we have illustrated there is stuff out there beyond Win98/2K/XP and OS X. And none of it works with anybody's USB modem.

    Your attic must be as bad as mine.


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