joec@Morgan.COM (Joe Collins) (11/22/89)
We are getting 2 IBM PS2 Mod 70s shortly (25mhz, 60 meg drive). We wish to connect them such that each machine sees its drive as C: and the other machines drive as D: The reason is that we plan to develop programs that will be reading and writing locally to C: and reading from the D: drive. The language is APL2 or perhaps C. Anyone have any experince doing this? Thanks, joec@morgan.com
plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (11/23/89)
I thought DeskLink which works with Desqview does that via. the
serial port. You get a wooping 115Kbaud transfer rate though, probably
slower than even the floppy disk.
Anyway, haven't try that myself. Just saw someone playing around
with it.
Regards,
Peter Lim.
HP Singapore IC Design Center.
E-mail address: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM
Snail Mail address: Peter Lim
Hewlett Packard Singapore,
(ICDS, ICS)
1150, Depot Road,
Singapore 0410.
Telephone: (065)-279-2289mlc@csucis.UUCP (Cipalla Mike) (11/27/89)
The program that you need is called LAPLINK PLUS it will allow you to use another computers drives from your machine through a cable. It works at 115,000 baud and on Model 70's should be very fast. You can also set it up to use the floppy drives as well. Great program for copying programs for a 3 1/2" machine to a 5 1/4" machine when you don't have a machine with both disk types.
malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) (12/01/89)
In article <140@csucis.UUCP> mlc@csucis.UUCP (Cipalla Mike) writes: >The program that you need is called LAPLINK PLUS it will allow you to use >another computers drives from your machine through a cable. It works at >115,000 baud and on Model 70's should be very fast. You can also set it up >to use the floppy drives as well. Great program for copying programs for a >3 1/2" machine to a 5 1/4" machine when you don't have a machine with both >disk types. I've been trying to find something which does this between my Z-100 (generic MS-DOS - not PC-DOS) and an IBM-Contemptible; specifically my recently acquired Zenith 286 Laptop. Simtel's modem programs don't seem to like the Z-100, presumably because they make direct bios calls. Kermit [ S L O W ] can be made to work, and I assume the Z-100 version of Procom with PC-Procom in the Laptop would work, but even with the PC Emulator running in the Z-100 I can't get anything really efficient to run. The Laptop comes with ZCOM which must be similar to LAPLINK (which I do NOT have), but I can't make ZCOM behave in the -100. Kermit is my last resort, but has anybody actually made one of the better things run on a -100? And am I correct in thinking LAPLINK is not PD? I don't need it unless it will play on the -100. Can anybody check whether its documentation makes a distinction between PCDOS and MSDOS and/or whether it says it won't work with non-compatibles? -- Don Malpass [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa], [malpass@gandalf.LL.mit.edu] ... A concerned and somewhat ashamed member of the only species which DESERVES extinction, Homo sapiens. 11/89