ARCNET email list
The ARCNET email list is open to all those who are interested in discussing ARCNET hardware, software and applications, news, availability, success stories, questions, answers, resources, and anything else ARCNET-related.
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If you have spare ARCNET cards or hubs which you would like to donate for a research project or sell for 2 or 3 dollars apiece, please contact Michael Kaufmann at michael@mucosa.franken.de. Michael writes:
Hello,
I'm searching for old, used ARCNET cards to build a very big computer cluster.
For this research project we need to connect over 1000 computers via ARCNET
to run the work parallel. We have already 400 cards and need about 700 more.
What type of cards do we need?
We can use nearly all old ARCNET cards.
2,5Mbps, 8 or 16 Bit ISA, coax bus or star, all controllers are o.k.
Unfortunately, this is a low budget research project. So we can only pay 2-3 dollars per
card.
If you would like to give us your old ARCNET cards for this research project, please send
me an email.
View and print out the ARCNET Trade Association Survey survey.doc and associated documents canvass.doc and annexd.doc.
We now have, courtesy of Michael Kaufmann, an archive of the ARCNET list messages. Point your browser to http://www.franken.de/users/mucosa/arccola/maillist.html to examine our archives.
If you know someone who works with or is interested in ARCNET, please pass this invitation along. Thank you!
JoAnne Schmitz, ARCNET list owner
ARCNET links
Here are a few links to various ARCNET related sites with short descriptions mostly taken from the web sites themselves. Inclusion here is not a recommendation or endorsement of the organizations, products or services advertised at the sites. Product names are trademark of the owners.
ARCNET Associations and User Groups
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ARCNET ® Trade Association -- The ARCNET Trade Association (ATA) is a non-profit organization of ARCNET users and manufacturers formed for the purpose of promoting ARCNET and providing information and standards for users. The ATA is also an ANSI standards organization that has developed industry standards for network communications.
- AUG, the ARCNET Users Group -- site for the German ARCNET users group, this site is in the German language.
ARCNET Hardware
- SMSC -- Standard Microsystems Corporation -- Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC) is a worldwide supplier of MOS/VLSI integrated circuits (ICs) for the personal computer industry. SMSC has a leading position in input/output (I/O) circuits for PCs with over 80 million units shipped and, additionally, supplies ICs for local area networks and embedded control systems.
- Sohard offers hardware and software, including drivers and a packet sniffer, this site is in English; this site is in the German language.
- Digitronic Germany offers
Arcnet Couplers & Controller boards for PLCs.
- Berthel GmbH -- Industrial PCs, PLCs with Arcnet Interface (ComCon), Arcnet Controllers for Simatic PLCs
- Bernecker & Rainer
Industrial PCs (Provit 2000/5000) with integrated/optional Arcnet
- SilCom Technologies, Inc. have been manufacturing and supplying ARCnet
transceiver hybrids to the major ARCnet players for the past 11 years. Hopefully our website datasheets will be useful for people involved or
thinking about becoming involved in the ARCnet industry.
- K + W GmbH -- Manufacturer of ARCNET boards
for industrial networking.
ARCNET Software
- Avery Pennarun's Linux-ARCnet support page -- ARCnet for Linux --
Avery Pennarun: "I am the author of the ARCnet (as opposed to Ethernet) driver for Linux, and here is my latest attempt at providing support for the thing." -- Avery Pennarun at apenwarr@worldvisions.ca
- Sohard offers hardware and software, including drivers and a packet sniffer, this site is in English; this site is in the German language.
- Klos Technologies, Inc.
-- Klos Technologies, Inc. makes PacketView, a software based
extensible protocol analyzer for ARCNET. PacketView captures raw ARCNET
packets using any COM20020 based ARCNET adapter, and decodes many popular
protocols including TCP/UDP/IP, SNMP, IPX/SPX/NCP. Custom protocol decoders
are easily added to PacketView to support internal protocols.
- Deltalogic -- Simatic-Programming and remote diagnostics via Arcnet (AcconPG and Accon ArcBox)
ARCNET Systems
- Contemporary Controls -- Contemporary Controls supports ARCNET and CAN fieldbus technologies. We produce ARCNET-compatible interface modules, wiring hubs, as well as bridges that support all CAN-based technology. These products are used mainly in industrial and commercial applications such as building automation, motion control and general industrial automation markets.
We are recognized as the ARCNET expert and suppliers of robust industrial network equipment
- Control Technology Corporation --
We make automation controllers which integrate servo control, stepping motor control, analog sensing, communications and, of course, conventional I/O. Our business is making automated machines work better and faster, and to help our customers meet their goals for factory integration.
ARCNET and ARCNET-Related Mailing Lists
- Automation List -- The purpose of the maillist automation@control.com is to provide a
non-commercial forum for the discussion of automation topics, including PLCs, plant
networks, and general automation concerns. It is hosted on a Micron Vetix server at Control Technology
Corporation in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and administered by Ken
Crater( ken@control.com). The list is moderated to avoid commercial exploitation, and is open to end users, the
trade press, students, and suppliers alike, including competitors of Control Tech. We
reserve the right, however, to make the final determination as to who may join the list or
remain on it.
- linux-arcnet email list -- "There is a popular arcnet-related mailing list called
linux-arcnet@tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl. Obviously, the list was created with a Linux bias but quite a few non-Linux
users have joined and answered questions. You can subscribe by sending a message
"subscribe linux-arcnet YOUR REAL NAME" to listserv@tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl.." -- Avery Pennarun at apenwarr@worldvisions.ca
To suggest additional links please email JoAnne Schmitz at jschmitz@qis.net
Last modified October 19, 2000.