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From: reb@quintro.uucp (Roger E. Benz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Ethernet board for Apollo3000 Actually a 3Com503 Board?
Message-ID: <1989Oct13.135604.13512@quintro.uucp>
Date: 13 Oct 89 13:56:04 GMT
References: <4548@ginosko.samsung.com>
Reply-To: reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz)
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In article <4548@ginosko.samsung.com> warren@samsung.com (Warren Lavallee) writes:
>Hello All,
>
>   We have an Apollo 3000 which is a 68020 box based on an AT bus [just
>like a PC]. Our machine has a token ring board which is of no use to
>us. Apollo offers another board that supports tcp/ip. My boss being
>notably tight-fisted balks at spending $700 for a board. On the other I
>suspect that the Apollo board is merely a 3COM503 Ethernet II. It would
>be nice to verify that.
>

Last year we were asking the same question and our Apollo SE said,
"Yes, it is a 3Com board, but it has an Apollo PROM".

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Roger E. Benz		   Phone = (217) 223-3211
Quintron Corporation	   Quincy, Il
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