I remember paying $800 for a network card for a PC in the mid 90's.

Just this week, I discarded a box filled with old 10/100 cards.

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From: "Mike Knell via TUHS" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: "Paul Ruizendaal" <pnr@planet.nl>
Cc: "TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:27:26 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!



> On 18 Mar 2021, at 10:44, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> Does anybody here know the backstory to Micnet and/or how it worked?

The Xenix communications manual has plenty of detail on how to set it up:
http://www.nj7p.org/Manuals/PDFs/Intel/174461-001.pdf

Looks as if it built a routed network among a set of Xenix machines using
conventional serial lines, including remote login / file transfer / mail
ervices. Would have been quite a big selling point for software development
shops in the days before TCP/IP and ubiquitous connectivity, especially as
it looks as if it was decentralised and didn’t require any extra server
hardware. MMDF could route mail between Micnet and UUCP.

Mike