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From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is there any ETHERNET card for the ST ?
Summary: Adaptec has SCSI <> Ethernet
Message-ID: <1420@lzsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 16:03:36 GMT
References: <93:kruel@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <93:kruel@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de>, kruel@vax.rz.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel) writes:
> Dear networkers,
> 
>    I know that this has come up before, but it hasn't been answered to the
> group (as far as I can see from the archive).
>    Has anybody some informations about an ETHERNET card for the ST ?
> If so, I'd appreciate information about
> 
>  - where is it connected to (DMA, ROM port) ?
>  - internet protocols available (telnet, ftp, rlogin) ?
>  - which terminal emulations (vt200 etc.) ?
>  - vendor and price
>  - availability
> 
Adaptec sells a SCSI to Ethernet board.
Installed, it cost $500-$1000 per node; so not much work has been done
in the Atari world to support it with software.

Modern SCSI interfaces for the Atari, such as the BMS-200 can handle chaining
these boards along with the Disk Drive interfaces.

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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