On 5/22/21 7:12 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
I guess that's a selling point of TR, but I loathed it when introduced
to it after using Ethernet at UIUC. Having to learn CPI-C, LU-2,
LU-6.2, APPC, etc. and configure Communications Manager/2 on OS/2 to
emulate a FEP (3174?, not sure, my mind
I've always thought that robots.txt would the be interesting stuff that
should be archived, perhaps it could be behind a paywall. There's no law
against archiving it other then subnets being blocked, which is easily
bypassed as matt cutts wrote a blog post on silently spidering content.
Also you
On 5/22/21 6:50 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote:
Wow, never heard of "Tokenray" ;)
Nor have I.
BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"
environments) and considerably faster with more consistent performance
than 10 Mbit Ethernet.
I've heard tell that Token
Grant and et al,
I have several hundred MB and expansion cards from 30 years ago up
to about 5 years ago. I would like to sell all of my computer equipment.
Boards, cards, cables, covers, printers, monitors, computers. The whole
works.
I probably have cancer and if I do I am dead. i
I've also used a version 5.1 SCSI2SD on a VAXstation 4000/60 without problem.
> However, it's far from perfect--in particular ftp content has
> apparently
Yes, who would have ever thought FTPs would be dropping like flies though? Web
sites? Sure. But FTP - how else were you going to distribute all those drivers,
patches, etc... Short answer just don't bother doing it
On 5/22/21 7:41 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
> link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM Ali via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the
>> article even sources being referenced as early as
link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works
On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM Ali via cctalk
wrote:
> Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the
> article even sources being referenced as early as 2018 have about a 60%
> Rot.I think all of us in this hobby can
On 5/22/2021 7:50 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote:
BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"
environments) and considerably faster with more consistent performance than 10
Mbit Ethernet. We won a number of large contracts when other network companies
used twisted
Bill,
On Sat, 22 May 2021 17:43:44 -0400
Bill Degnan wrote:
> You mean a Tokenray network?
Wow, never heard of "Tokenray" ;)
BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"
environments) and considerably faster with more consistent performance than 10
Mbit Ethernet. We
Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the article
even sources being referenced as early as 2018 have about a 60% Rot.I think all
of us in this hobby can relate nor only to loss of articles but from sites,
drivers, file repositories,
You mean a Tokenray network?
On Sat, May 22, 2021, 4:34 PM Lyle Bickley via cctalk
wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> On Sat, 22 May 2021 13:34:05 -0600
> Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Q: Does anyone have any IBM PC Network hardware and / or software that
> > they would be willing to part with?
>
Hi Grant,
On Sat, 22 May 2021 13:34:05 -0600
Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> Q: Does anyone have any IBM PC Network hardware and / or software that
> they would be willing to part with?
My company installed a several hundred IBM PC Network equipped workstations
"back in the day" ;)
It was
On 5/22/21 12:34 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_Network
>
>
>
I have the tech ref on bitsavers.
This was sytek cable modem tech. In small networks you had a little frequency
translator box locally
Q: Does anyone have any IBM PC Network hardware and / or software that
they would be willing to part with?
The recent "COMPAQ ISA PC to ethernet" thread got me thinking about IBM
PC Network (and ARCnet) again.
Sadly, Wikipedia's IBM PC Network article [1] is about the most concise
/
I tend to agree with everything you said. Though, minor nitpick, I
think you meant 80286 when you typed 80206. ;-)
True, 0 looks like 8 with cheap glasses :-)
What is an ECNE?
ECNE was Enterprise CNE. You had to pass the CNE, then additional tests
on SNA networking, 3+ Open, some of the
I tend to agree with everything you said. Though, minor nitpick, I
think you meant 80286 when you typed 80206. ;-)
On 5/22/21 1:11 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Novel ECNE (I so don't get to drag that out much anymore. Drat)
What is an ECNE?
I know what a CNE and CNA are. But I've not
I think "compatible" is a weird things with Novell Ethernet labeled /
citified cards as it's my understanding that Novell didn't actually sell
the vast majority of NE-1000 / NE-2000 cards. Instead, they licensed /
certified that other manufacturer cards adhered to their standard. Thus
there
On 5/22/2021 10:29 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
On May 21, 2021, at 5:15 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
wrote:
On 5/21/2021 3:41 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Does anyone have experience using a SCSI2SD board to replace a Hard Drive on a
VAXstation or an AlphaStation? I’m thinking about
> wrote:
In this the weakest link would appear to be the SD Card. As such it seems to
me that the best solution would be to have 2 or more SCSI2SD?s in the device.
I?m not sure what benefit would be achieved by using a single board to present
multiple devices. Unless of course you had a
On 5/22/21 11:16 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
The venerable options of LapLink and / or InterLnk (InterSvr) come to
mind for transferring files.
I forgot to mention, both LapLink and InterLnk (InterSvr) supported a
parallel port cable too. It was quite a bit faster than the serial null
On 5/20/21 9:09 PM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote:
I assume there is Windows on the Compaq?
I think that it would need to be Windows for Workgroups; 3.1 / 3.11, to
include networking support. Depending on the class of hardware that
Randy's Compaq is, that may be a tall order for the system.
On 5/22/21 9:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
In this the weakest link would appear to be the SD Card. As such it seems to
me that the best solution would be to have 2 or more SCSI2SD’s in the device.
There should be SMART support so you can see what the state of the card is,
assuming
Hi Rich,
On 5/20/21 8:21 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
I have ISA ethernet and Arcnet boards.
I'd be interested in knowing more about your ARCnet boards. Of course,
that is if Randy doesn't end up using them.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 5/20/21 8:01 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
If anyone has ideas about boards or software to connect this original
Compaq to the net let me know!
As others have said, I would expect that many 16-bit ISA Ethernet cards
to work in 8-bit ISA slots.
You might look for NE-1000
> In this the weakest link would appear to be the SD Card. As such it
> seems to me that the best solution would be to have 2 or more SCSI2SD’s
> in the device. I’m not sure what benefit would be achieved by using a
> single board to present multiple devices. Unless of course you had a
> drive
On May 22, 2021, at 9:12 AM, Ali wrote:
>
>> I am wondering if anyone has used these to replace HDDs in RAID
>> configurations? My thought would be it should work fine as long as they
>> look like real HDD to the system but who knows?
>
> Looking at the FAQ it looks like it does:
>
> "Does
> I am wondering if anyone has used these to replace HDDs in RAID
> configurations? My thought would be it should work fine as long as they
> look like real HDD to the system but who knows?
Looking at the FAQ it looks like it does:
"Does SCSI2SD do ECC or mirroring ?
No. However, you can
On May 22, 2021, at 8:35 AM, Ali wrote:
>
>> I just placed an order for the initial 4 V5.2 boards I’ll need. Once
>> they have V6 boards back in stock, I’ll need to order a couple of those
>> as well. These should definitely help reduce heat, noise, and power
>> consumption.
>
> I am
> I just placed an order for the initial 4 V5.2 boards I’ll need. Once
> they have V6 boards back in stock, I’ll need to order a couple of those
> as well. These should definitely help reduce heat, noise, and power
> consumption.
I am wondering if anyone has used these to replace HDDs in RAID
On May 21, 2021, at 5:15 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 5/21/2021 3:41 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
>> Does anyone have experience using a SCSI2SD board to replace a Hard Drive on
>> a VAXstation or an AlphaStation? I’m thinking about using them on some of
>> my systems
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