[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: Sad end to SGI Power Challenge XL story

[Dave McGuire]

On March 21, Big Endian wrote:
> >>  Chalenges don't do FastE.  You'll need an Origin for that.  But my L
> >
> >   Umm, no, when I got my ChallengeDM (the one that you have now) 
> >came with two 100mbps ethernet interfaces.
> 
> really?  All the docs I've read say that it only does FDDI.  They 
> were VME cards obviously, but what kind?  Do you have a link?  BTW, 
> George has the DM now.  I just have the CPUs and 64mb sticks out of 
> it.

  I don't recall the manufacturer; I sold them on eBay shortly after I
got the machine.  I saw several of them around at the time, though, so
they aren't (or weren't) all that uncommon.

         -Dave

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