zwicky@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky) (04/12/90)
In article <7630002@hpccc.HP.COM> wille@hpccc.HP.COM (Ross Wille) writes: >I was told some time ago that the early Apple EtherTalk cards had a >firmware problem that evidenced itself by occasionally scrambling >received data. This problem only occurred, I was told, when the >traffic on the Ethernet was particularly high. Yes, this is true. Unless you were a beta-test site, you never saw a board with this problem. Those were *REALLY* early boards, and there were only about 300 ever manufactured. I happen to have been at the beta-test site that triggered this problem first... (It required a massively loaded ethernet, as well as a bad board.) Elizabeth Zwicky