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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.   
      
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