Wild Vision ATM Network Card
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ATM (or Asynchronous Transfer Mode) is a network protocol, like Ethernet, which was popular in the early 1990s particularly for WAN links. However it has lost out to improved Ethernet versions, (e.g. fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet) and is little used today. This card was designed by David J Greaves at ATM Ltd. The Company Wild Vision had a slightly different PCB layout for their production run. The card fits in the RiscPC (and A7000) Network slot. It is used in the Online Media STB1 which was produced by Acorn for Video On Demand trials with Cambridge Cable (now part of Virgin Media) in the mid 1990s. In these trials the connection to the premise used ATM over the cable network to connect the STB1 to the video servers. More information on the ITV trial can be found here. http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/itv/ Date : UnknownManufacturer : Wild Vision Format : Expansion Board Physical Description : Expansion board This exhibit has a reference ID of CH48130. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. |
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