Subj : ping
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Sun Mar 14 2004 04:26 am

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 RJT> Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 
 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-
 
 RJT> Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to John Donohue:
 
 LE> Heck there are CPM version *and* Network cards for things like the
 LE> Apple II and some TRS80 models.

 RJT> Well,  I have neither Apple II nor TRS-80 here,  never did get into
 RJT> either of them all that much.  I do have several Kaypros,  an Osborne
 RJT> Executive,  and a couple of others (Cromemco rackmounted S100 box,
 RJT> Bigboard II, etc.). 

S100 Arcnet & ethernet boards exist. Finding drivers would be
interesting. :-)

 JD> the PS2 OS/2 2.1 box only has a token ring card
 
 LE> You can still find microchannel ethernet cards if you look.
 
 RJT> Got one here,  new in the box.  And a microchannel machine,  too, 
 RJT> though that has networking in it already. 
 
 LE> You've got one of the few varieties of PS/2 ro *not* have
 LE> microchannel slots?!

 RJT> Not PS/2,  it's an NCR tower.  Very non-standard architecture in
 RJT> there,  I can't even use standard RAM in it. 
 JD> the 486-133 DOS box isn't worth hooking to a network

You said "PS2 OS/2 2.1 box" above...

 
 LE> I've got a 486DX2-66 hooked up. It does my Fidonet & uucp. And it
 LE> used to be a 486-33!
 
 LE> I've had XT clones on my LAN. They load games off my server
 LE> (Netware) a lot faster than off the HD!
 
 RJT> Interesting!  What platform?  OS?
 
 LE> XT clones running DOS (not much else you can run on them), server
 LE> running Netware on a P-90 system.

 RJT> And what are you doing under dos to network things?  About the best
 RJT> I've been able to do on this box here is a packet driver and an ftp
 RJT> client. 

Netware Client on the DOS box. When I get around to upgrading the
Netware server, I'll be able to switch it from IPX to IP, and that will
let me move some stuff onyto it.

Having the files mostly on the server helps. The 486 only gets the
fidonet & uucp stuff. The files it gets reside on the server, and I've
got dos Windows on the OS/2 box running batch files that look for
semaphores created by the 486. When it finds them, it processes the files.

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