At 09:13 -0800 on 08/12/02, Gamba wrote:

>An easy electrical design, but not a make-it-at-home pc board design,

Yeah, I know ;)

>'cause there's 360 connector pins to interconnect. That's gonna take at
>least 4 layers.  which means plated thru holes.

Yep.

>Of course one could always hand wire it.....ouch.

Ha!

>>>Is the Asante ethernet card the preferred card for these projects?
>
>>Yes, mostly because it's one of the few that allows manual slot address
>>assignment, I think.  Sort of like IRQs on a PC - most Mac cards "just work"
>>but when you're doing something the Mac was never designed for, like this, you
>>need that capability of manual address assignment.
>
>And isn't it true that only Asante made SE/30 enet cards that have PDS
>pass-thru slots?

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever seen anything *but* Asante-branded
Ethernet cards for the 030 PDS.
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