Free 16/4 token ring cards

[zaphod]

Doing some spring cleaning of the mountain of PC-related parts in my basement.  I have a number of 16/4 token ring cards.  Most were pulled (working) from machines that were upgraded to ethernet at my place of employment.  Several are brand new.  A mix of Dell and IBM.  There are at least 15 of them, possibly more- I can provide an exact count if interested.  I just don't have a use for them and it's not worth my time even trying to ebay.

They should fit into a USPS priority mail fixed rate box.  If you could use these, pay postage ($8.10), and they are yours.

[Timoe]

whatza "token ring"?

[zaphod]

whatza "token ring"?

PC network card for a "token ring" network.  If you don't know what one is, this likely isn't the item for you.

[nullb0y]

token ring can be a major pain to set up lol (sometimes)

[miles2912]

Tolken ring networks where a horrible joke played on us by the nice folks at IBM.  They are pretty much museum pieces now as a lesson of how NOT to run a network.  Makes me shudder to think of em.

Don

[zaphod]

Tolken ring networks where a horrible joke played on us by the nice folks at IBM.  They are pretty much museum pieces now as a lesson of how NOT to run a network.  Makes me shudder to think of em.

Don

And you can have yourself a whole mess of "museum pieces" for just the price of shipping.

[clhug]

Doing some spring cleaning of the mountain of PC-related parts in my basement.  I have a number of 16/4 token ring cards.  Most were pulled (working) from machines that were upgraded to ethernet at my place of employment.  Several are brand new.  A mix of Dell and IBM.  There are at least 15 of them, possibly more- I can provide an exact count if interested.  I just don't have a use for them and it's not worth my time even trying to ebay.

They should fit into a USPS priority mail fixed rate box.  If you could use these, pay postage ($8.10), and they are yours.

This makes me laugh!  My company (a company of about 10,000 in one metropolitan area) just finally changed over from Token Ring only about 4 years ago.  Every now and then I'll still find one of the old cards around.  Just saw one about 2 weeks ago in fact.

On a side note, I've got a couple Token Ring MAU's if anybody wants them for their museum!

[TheOtherBob]

I recently came across a couple ARCNET cards...... and some t-connectors for 10-BASE-2....

(another donation for your museum)

[TheOtherBob]

Tolken ring networks

One network to rule them all...... 

[nullb0y]

Tolken ring networks

One network to rule them all...... 

well it would deff not be tolken ring.... lol

[tk_42_1]

I assume the cards are ISA...if they were MCA then maybe we could work somthing out. 

BTW, I used to work for Big Blue and they were smart enough to move to Ethernet.  Two buy outs and three companies later, we still have the token ring jacks still in our offices.

[clhug]

Ooh, if I'd only have known.  We used to have MCA, but I haven't seen any MCA cards in years.  3 years ago I was in one of our remote offices and found the old (7 years old since it was last used) MCA server sitting in the back corner of their closet.  It had never been sent back to home office to get disposed of.  Got a picture of it for posterity.

Up until this year we still had 5 offices with old type 9 wiring with those weird unisex square connectors, running 10 Mb Ethernet.  We finally got our management to spring for the cost of rewiring so we could move them to 100 Mb Ethernet.  3 done, 2 more to go.