Bought a few ARCnet NICs and a HGC adapter sold as a gameport card. I'm quite fond of these old network adapters and nobody wants them in the retro community anyway so these are always cheap. Might build an ARCnet network to see how it fares compared to IBM's token-ring solution.

ARCnet is actually useful though. It works with most things from Amigas, DataPoints, IBM ATs to Windows NT and PCI bus. And, what a 2025 hacker going to do if they encounter an obscure protocol on ARCnet devices? Join Vogons and ask for help? 😉