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Re: FS: 3COM 3c509b ethernet card

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From: Sam Brannen
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:00
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J Austin David wrote:
> 
>   I have a 3COM 3c509b ethernet card that has been used for less than 2
> quarters on ResNet.  It's an ISA card, but has PnP bios & is "parallel
> tasking," which is supposed to have minimal impact on the CPU.  It should
> work for any OS you can throw at it; I bought it to use under Solaris x86.
> On my Solaris box, I was getting ~800k/sec.
>   It's a great card, but I don't live in the dorms, and I wanna liquidate
> the assets.
>   I'll consider a trade for a big-ish EIDE drive (~1 gig or so), or best
> RESONABLE offer gets it.  I think it was ~$125 at CompUSA/Lenox.

Well, I have a source that's selling them brand new for only $55 bucks
w/
a cable; also, PAULCH is selling that card for $105 (I think)...
Just thought you should know...

> ====================================
> Amusing things students have written in papers
>   - (Define H2O and CO2.)  H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold
>     water.

Isn't it sad?  ;-)

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