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Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:42:04 -0700
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Cards that you get now-a-days are PCI.  Back then, they used ISA cards.  
Go to Ebay and search for ISA Ethernet and you will probably get lucky.  
That should work for you.  However, I am curious as to what operating 
system you are using...

Tony Mayer



Greg Purvis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've an AMBRA 486 Computer that I want to use to connect to a small 
> network shared with two other PCs.
>
> I haven't found out much about 'Ambra' yet, but it seems to be a 
> hardware-software combination created by IBM, dating over to the early 
> 90's.
> I tried to insert a card for an ethernet cable, but the slots are 
> different, the card won't fit.
>
> Did IBM, or some other company, build specially-shaped cards to plug 
> into these machines, and was an ethernet card/socket one of them?
>
> Thanks for any advice. 

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