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From: rocks@nmsu.edu (Dave Rocks)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: 3C501 and old PC's
Keywords: 3C501, 3+OPEN, IBM PC
Message-ID: <122@opus.NMSU.Edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 21:55:03 GMT
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	Has anyone had problems running 3+Open on OLD IBM PC's(not XT's)
	using 3C501 cards. We get strange and misleading data error messages
	trying to load from floppies and then a "error trying to spawn
	redir" message. The same diskettes will boot from Zenith XT clones
	or PS/2'-286's using 3C501 cards. The software will work correctly
	in the old PC's if we use a 3C503 instead. It may not be a 3+Open
	problem, rather a IBM/PC(circa 1983)-3C501 problem and may have
	shown up under other NOS's. We have 55 such machines, so it would be
	no small expense to replace the 3C501 cards. If anyone has come
	across similar errors, no matter what the operating environment, I
	would like to hear about it.

					Thanx
					Dave Rocks
					New Mexico State University
					rocks@nmsu.edu