Archive for May, 2007

Winner of Name that Ware March 2007!

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

The winner of Name that Ware March 2007 is bdb! Impressive work, and congratulations. The board is in fact SN001 of a ChaosNet adapter–one of the direct ancestors of the ubiquitous Ethernet. It’s from a Perkin-Elmers 3230 computer. Needless to say, this is a personal treasure of mine, a small piece of history that I can call my own.

While some ChaosNet adapters were deployed in Symbolics LISP machines, I was specifically looking for someone to identify it as a ChaosNet adapter (so John Peterson was very close, but bdb nailed it right on). Congratulations again!