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From: rexfelis@milton.u.washington.edu (Leif Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: I got my NexT, and have questions
Keywords: NeXT, B-land
Message-ID: <18945@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 02:12:34 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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    Well, I got my Demo Sale Cube last Monday, and it seems to be in 
 almost perfect condition, almost.  Thank you to Norm Gilbert & Co. for
 getting it to me, in 18 days, no less...  ;)
  But...the OD died after one usage...so, I get to take it down to
 my local B-land to get it checked out...  :(
  (note, I believe the *disk* died, not the drive, although I can't be sure
 a bad drive caused the bad disk)

  Anyhow, I have a few questions about my new machine...

  1) How do you change the machine name/domain name or whatever that is
 at the top of the login window? This is a non-networked NeXT, so...

  2) how would I go about hooking my NeXT to a dumb-terminal? To be exact,
 a Qume QVT102 terminal. I believe it has an "EIA" and an "AUX" port on it,
 but which one should I use to connect it to the Next? And which next port
 should I use...I assume one of the serial's, but which one, A or B?
  And, of course, where would I go about getting the requisite cable?
  And, would I have to run anything in the background to get it to
 recognize log-ins from the port, or would it "automatically" do so?

  3) another one, how would one go about connecting a Epson-compatible
 printer to use as a line printer? (it's a Star NX-1000, to be exact)
    Abd how would one get it to function as such?

  Anyhow, believe that's all for now...any help is *greatly* appreciated...

                                            - Leif Harrison
                                     rexfelis@milton.u.washington.edu