Subj : ping To : Leonard Erickson From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Sun Mar 14 2004 08:07 pm Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: 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.). LE> S100 Arcnet & ethernet boards exist. Finding drivers would be LE> interesting. :-) I'll bet they're out there somewhere. 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?! Eh? No, I have a microchannel NIC. Also have a microchannel machine (NCR), that I haven't done much of anything with yet. 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. <...> 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. Ah. I never did any netware stuff here, though I have the option to do some under linux. Dunno what that would require on the XT side of things, though, and I have very few 8-bit cards -- in particular "Etherlink I" (early 3com cards) that are not terribly well recommended for use under linux. They're also coax-only, so I'd need different wiring and have to go into the coax port on my hub. 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. LE> Netware Client on the DOS box. When I get around to upgrading the LE> Netware server, I'll be able to switch it from IPX to IP, and that LE> will let me move some stuff onyto it. I have this "personal netware" stuff here, never messed with it. I don't know that there's any interoperability with any of the tcp/ip stuff I'm currently running. LE> Having the files mostly on the server helps. The 486 only gets the LE> fidonet & uucp stuff. The files it gets reside on the server, and LE> I've got dos Windows on the OS/2 box running batch files that look LE> for semaphores created by the 486. When it finds them, it processes LE> the files. That's been my approach to things too, though I haven't implemented anything lately -- not once the bbs got stable to the point where I wanted it to be. If it ain't broke... :-) --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .