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From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Does uucp have to be slow?
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Date: 26 Oct 90 21:57:47 GMT
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Further update: I got 25 of 30 meg transferred via the serial link, but
couldn't get the last big file. Finally I gave up, uuencoded it (it was a
compressed cpio archive), split it into 345K chunks, and used PC disks to
move it (*sigh*). It's now all there. Now all I have to do is figure out how
to not have to run my modem link at 1200...Craig Macbride (did I get it right
this time? :-) suggested that I need all 7 signal lines when talking fast to
the PMC ports, but I did away with the need before trying that. (The cable I
had been using was only 4 wires plus ground.) That won't help with the modem,
though, since it's a (relatively) dumb US Robotics Courier 2400, and has no
buffering. I suppose I could build up a little buffer box with 8K of RAM or
so...wonder how that would work on a uucp link?

In article <1990Oct25.002637.2437@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM> vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause) writes:
>Trust me, you *WANT* to get an HPSIO board into that system.

No doubt...it would have made all this a *LOT* easier. Still, laying hands on
one is bound to be non-trivial...

>Verify whether your system has a 9-pin RS-232 connector(s), or whether it
>has 15-pin.  The only difference for the HPSIO upgrade is that if you 
>already have the 15-pin ones, you are spared the hassle ordering the 
>TTY bulkhead plate itself.  In any case, you get the joy of ordering 
>and installing the HPSIO-to-Bulkhead cables.  Lotsa' little screws!

Oh well...guess I have an early frame, then, since it has the 9-pin connectors
and the version 1 (tall...reaches right up to the LIM rack) power supply.
More fun.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu  | adequately be explained by stupidity.
         "With design like this, who needs bugs?" - Boyd Roberts