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Latest Model Farallon SE/30 Ethernet Card?

trag

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So I've been eyeing those batches of 100 Farallon LC Ethernet cards on Ebay. They appear to use a custom Farallon chip. Now, if I was Farallon, I would have designed that chip to handle all the Mac cards I might manufacture.

So, the question is, did they use that chip on an SE/30 ethernet card (a much more rare flavor) and if they did, could we steal the chips from the LC cards, put them on a different PCB with appropriate connector and make SE/30 ethernet cards.

The early SE/30 cards I've seen are built with National Semi chipsets. Anyone have a card or image of a Farallon SE/30 card built with a Farallon branded chip?

Or just post your images of Farallon brand SE/30 cards, might be fun.

 
it shouldnt be any different. You just need the proper CPLD HDL to handle the nubus slot space, and the declROM. Plus the decoding for the chip on the bus. 

 
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