8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>>> I know of ARCnet,  went to a short seminar on that once at a trade show, 
>>> and in fact even have a couple of ISA cards around here someplace, 
>>> though I don't forsee me ever using them.
>> ARCnet and most of the 'nets were in the price range of a hard disk then.
>> Also the whole idea of networking was new.  For example in 1982 the two
>> largest networks I knew of were DEC (internal) and Dupont(internal) and
>> they were around 50 nodes!
> 
> I remember those days,  thinking of 50 nodes as being pretty good-sized.  :-)

IBM's internal network was significantly larger than that by '82.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar