Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!aimed!nick From: nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr Subject: Re: braindead (again), prf and streams Message-ID: <8639@aimed.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 90 13:09:46 GMT References: <90330.082142TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> Reply-To: nick@aimed.UUCP (Nick Pemberton) Organization: AIM Inc, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 20 In article <90330.082142TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu> TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes: >would be appreciated. Second, we are considering buying a terminal >server (16 port) to do away with HPSIO systems. Anyone have a good >(cheap) recommendation on one that will perform dedicated access to >to the tower (ie: a dial in to the server should automagically >connect you to the tower and not give you an annex prompt only). > I highly recommend the DTC/RTC system that NCR supports (I believe it is from SYSTEK) - this is an arcnet based system. We have three machines with this system and it is far superiour to the HPSIO system. You can connect 128 serial ports and 8 (?) parallel ports per DTC controller. On our main machine we have 80 ports hanging on one controller, and it has never had any trouble. Nick. -- Nick Pemberton uucp: !{lsuc, uunet!mnetor}!aimed!nick AIM, Inc bus: (416) 429-1085 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Home: (416) 690-0647