• Re: Tokin' madness

    From IBMMuseum@21:1/5 to Peter H. Wendt on Sun Oct 8 20:23:03 2023
    On Tuesday, September 7, 1999 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, Peter H. Wendt wrote:
    Hi Louis !
    I have two different long 16/4 adapter layouts. Not sure if
    they are the same card... Will investigate.
    They are basically the same - however the one with the 64D7274 at ZM3 is
    the later revision. This chip contains the output drivers and some
    "corporate logic", which was the 2 14-pin ICs on the elder version (ZM1
    & ZM4).
    The P/N for the RPL-ROM is 25F8923 by the way.

    Peter in Germany

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  • From schimmi@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 9 12:41:31 2023
    Hm, but why? :D

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  • From IBMMuseum@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 9 18:31:34 2023
    Hm, but why? :D

    '64D7274' is a typo (now discovered after close to 25 years later), with a 'D' instead of a '0'; This error has replicated into the component list of the 16F1144 16/4 microchannel adapter (but not the initial "Long" 4Mbps Token-Ring adapter that also
    uses it). Peter's statement that the microchannel Token-Ring adapter(s) using the 6407274 "CHEX" chip are later revisions is incorrect; To wit, it is on the first 8-bit 4Mbps Token-Ring adapters, the first microchannel 4Mbps Token-Ring adapter, the first
    8-bit 16/4 Token-Ring adapter, and likely the first 16/4 microchannel Token-Ring adapter (this discussion). The alternative that was on later Token-Ring adapters was a pair of 53F2158 (Louis posted a separate follow-up to this post in 2019, which I also
    revived).

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  • From schimmi@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 11 14:35:13 2023
    I would have to lie to declare the topic interesting, but thanks for the explanation. That's beyond my nerd level :)

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