{"id":1115,"date":"2025-06-14T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2025-06-14T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:35:11","slug":"svi-local-area-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"SVI Local Area Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published in 1984, this brochure detailed how Spectravideo computers could be put together as a local area network for use in classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It mentions a key piece of hardware (required in the master computer and each of the slave computers), a network card labelled as SVI-809 Network Interface Card (Expansion adapter needed for slave computers) for original Spectravideo machines, and SVI-709 Network Interface Card for any MSX computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The master station was listed as an SVI-606 Master Station, which included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1118\" style=\"width:309px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A 10MB Winchester Hard Drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A 320k 5 1\/4&#8243; Floppy Drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An 80-column card<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Parallel printer interface<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>64k Dynamic RAM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RS-232-C interface cartridge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The LAN interface<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and the LAN software <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be interesting if one of these units existed in physical form, even if it was only a prototype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/LAN1-745x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1117\" style=\"width:318px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/Spectravideo\/SVI-LocalAreaNetwork.pdf\">https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/Spectravideo\/SVI-LocalAreaNetwork.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 1984, this brochure detailed how Spectravideo computers could be put together as a local area network for use in classrooms. It mentions a key piece of hardware (required in the master computer and each of the slave computers), a network card labelled as SVI-809 Network Interface Card (Expansion adapter needed for slave computers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spectravideo-documentation-technical-guides"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}