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This may explain your problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_Architecture
It was a replacement slot design made by IBM to remove
limitations in the older ISA slot type.
They were not too popular and did not go too "main stream".
26 years later I still have fairly new machines (2002?) that
still used the ISA bus instead... (At most, one slot.)
I saw limited numbers of them, generally in a commercial
or business setting. Being IBM, everything was pretty
expensive.
Rick Glazier
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Purvis"
> 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?
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