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From: visinfo@ethz.UUCP (VISINFO Moderators)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmiEXPO Cologne
Keywords: AmiEXPO Transputer Video Toaster Amiga Laptop
Message-ID: <2603@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 89 13:30:06 GMT
References: <8911100444.AA12995@jade.berkeley.edu> <2531@ethz.UUCP> <3957@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: visinfo@bernina.ethz.ch.UUCP (VISINFO Moderators)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <3957@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
>In article <2531@ethz.UUCP>, visinfo@ethz.UUCP (VISINFO Moderators) writes:
>> * Hydra Systems:
>> 
>>   Hydra Systems has made the first Ethernet board for the Amiga.
>
>	Wrong.  Ameristar made the first ethernet boards for the
>	Amiga.  Since the A1000 days.  It is perhaps accurate to
>	state that Hydra was the first European company to sell
>	an Ethernet board.
>
>> F.BURGEL/SG
>
>					Rick Spanbauer
>					Ameristar Technology

Sorry, but we didn't know that Ameristar was first with Ethernet cards on
the Amiga. We've never seen an Ameristar Ethernet in any shop or any adverts
for it in Europe.
Hydra System themselves claimed to be the first company (in Europe?) that 
has made an Amiga Ethernet.

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