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Hello,

> I had the good fortune to inherit a 98643A ethernet option board yesterda=
y,
> thinking I would be able to install it in my 380. Unfortunately, it seems=
 that
> they are physically different, the 380's boards looking more like VME and=
 the
> 98643A having a card-edge connect. Where there different form factor boar=
ds
> made for the 380, or was this designed for an expansion box?

The ethernet board is most likely a DIO-I card ( 16 bit, pretty slow ), it =
will fit into a 320 and similar boxes, newer machines like the 345, 380 and=
 so on have only DIO-II which is 32bit wide and a lot faster. No idea if th=
ere are DIO-II ethernet boards.

have fun
Michael

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