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From: sl137223@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (sl137223)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IBM Token Ring Network Question
Message-ID: <1192@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 88 09:27:12 GMT
Reply-To: sl137223@silver.UUCP ()
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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I currently work with a PS/2 Model 80 and Model 60 on an IBM token ring
network.  I would like to add an AT&T 6300 to the network.  I already have
a network card for it, and have installed and run the system diagnostics 
supplied by IBM.  The hardware apparently checks out okay.  What I would like
to know, is this.  What version of AT&T DOS do I need?  The IBM manuals say
I need DOS 3.2 or higher, but they are talking about for the IBM.  I called 
AT&T and they said "We don't support the IBM network, you'll have to talk
to IBM."  So I called IBM and they said, "We don't support the AT&T 6300."
Has anyone added an AT&T computer to an IBM network before?  If not, is anyone
familiar with the internals to the IBM network software?  Everything I have
ever tried to run on the AT&T has worked, so I assume the DOS is compatible
internally, but then again, you never know.  I guess if no one has any 
insight, I will just get DOS 3.2 for the AT&T and see what happens.

Also, has anyone had any experience with the mail order company Gateway 2000?
A friend of mine purchased an AT style machine from them and they sent him a
hodge podge of equipment.  The memory chips in the machine are from three 
different manufactures.  The monitor is from a different manufacturer than was
quoted over the phone.