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|    Rick Ekblaw to Louis Ohland    |
|    Re: Auction: Vintage IBM PC Computer Typ    |
|    10 Jan 24 07:48:13    |
      From: ekblaw@vnet.ibm.com              Louis Ohland wrote:       > I couldn't see any slot covers...              Correct, it's not a standard design with ISA slots or anything like       that. It does have an I/O bus, that's where those SDLC adapters plug       into the bottom, but that's also custom to this box. Back in the late       1970s and early 1980s IBM thought that System Network Architecture (SNA)       was going to take over the world and they made some interesting products       to support that view. What IBM failed to see was that Ethernet and the       Internet were going to win the networking war, so they wasted a lot of       time and money on SNA and Token-Ring before the point was finally driven       home.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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