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From: miller@lamar.colostate.edu (Allen Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: NS/ARPA services on HP9000/540
Message-ID: <13136@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 91 01:43:24 GMT
Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU
Reply-To: miller@lamar.colostate.edu (Allen Miller)
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
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I have been given an HP 9000 series 540 by someone here at Colorado
State and have some questions about this machine.  I understand it is rather
obsolete.  FYI we also run several 9000-320's running HP-UX 7.0.

- Can the 540 run Telnet/FTP?  It has a LAN card in it, with cables and
  ThinMAU box.  What software is necessary?  One local expert says that
  the only solution is some 3rd party software from Wollongong, but that
  it also costs money, something we don't want to spend on this machine
  if at all possible.


- What is the most recent HP-UX version which supports this hardware?  The
  guy who was running it before was running 5.2, but never tried to network
  it to anything.

- My hope is to be able to use this thing as a gateway bewteen a piece of
  scientific apparatus which does not have an Ethernet card and the rest
  of the real world.  All this 540 would need to do is sit there and run
  a minumal system and read data from the spectrometer via a serial port,
  saving the data to be able to send it away via ftp.  I would welcome any
  comments/hints that anyone may have.

- If its hopeless, let me know that also, so I can quit bothering with it.
- Allen Miller                                      miller@lamar.colostate.edu -
- Department of Physics                                         (303) 491-7751 -
- Colorado State University                                 fax (303) 491-7947 -
- Fort Collins CO 80523                                                        -


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