Subj : Re: Networking my Vintage Homelab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Nov 30 2023 17:59:00

 pF> Yeah, being able to do screen redirection, drive redirection, shared
 pF> drives and shared printers in DOS was pretty cool. If memory serves, the
 pF> dedicated LANTastic cards only did 5 mbps, which was sufficient back
 pF> then. It let me run the BBS headless and run a console in a DOS window
 pF> is OS/2, which I thought was Pretty Damn Cool.

Inneresting... I was given a copy of NWlite with the first 3c503 cards I
received. At the time I was able to just bung them in, run the install
software off its floppy and it all worked like a dream.  At least remote
drives and print sharing did.  Had to use Artisoft's "The Network Eye" for
screen redirection.

A few people tried to sling me a copy of LanTastic further down the track. I
don't know if these were dud copies, or what, but they steadfastly refused to
install at any time. It always appeared to be missing drivers... but being
pre internet if it didn't work out of the box, then it was pretty tricky
trying to get anything else required.  And I don't think I ever saw what a
complete driver load for an installed system looked like.

Out of interest, what kind of card only did 5mbps? Never saw anything like
that.

Spec


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