rbriber@POLY1.NIST.GOV (04/09/91)
William Silvert writes: >Is this as simple as it sounds? I have a PI 4D/25 with an ethernet port >and a WD card for my 386 and absolutely no knowledge about ethernet. I've >been informed that the PI connector is thick wire and the BNC T-connector >on the WD card is thin wire, so that I need an expensive interface box as >well as the cables. Is this correct? I would dearly love to connect >the two machines, but funds are limited. I run my 386 with a WD8003 ethernet card connected with a drop cable (connects to the 15 pin socket on the back of the card) which runs to our thick wire ethernet backbone to which our Iris(es) are connected. I am currently using Clarkson's version of NCSA Telnet 2.2D which works great. I run it under Desqview on the 386 which allows it to run in the background (allowing ftp to occur while I'm working on something else in the forground). The NCSA package has multiple simultaneous login sessions, supports tektronics graphics (gnuplot runs fine), and has a reconfigurable keyboard. I actually prefer working on source code at my pc much of the time because I can set the keyboard up easily to work with emacs so home, end, del, backspace, ctrl end, ctrl home all do what I think they should. Now I realize that with some work I could probably set up emacs to use the iris keyboard more efficiently but I've never sorted that all out. The Clarkson version of NCSA telnet also comes with a PC version of lpr allowing me to print files on the Iris' laser printer from my PC (and it works! (3.3.1)). Total expenses: WD8003 card (8 bit version) ~ $180 drop cable ~ $75 transceiver to connect to the drop cable to ethernet ~$100 NCSA telnet program ~free ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Adios Amebas, |"In the future we will all have names that will | | Robert Briber | make the cathode ray tube resonate." | | NIST 224/B210 | --Professor Brian O'Blivion | | Gaithersburg, MD 20899| rbriber@poly1.nist.gov (Internet) | | (301) 975-6775 (voice)| rbriber@enh.nist.gov (Internet) | | (301) 975-2128 (fax) | rbriber@nbsenh.bitnet (Bitnet) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------