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From: loafman@convexe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hooking PC's together
Message-ID: <63200030@convexe>
Date: 16 Feb 88 00:15:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convexe.UUCP!loafman    Feb 15 18:15:00 1988


/* landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU.Sun.COM writes... */
/* ---------- "hooking PC's together" ---------- */
Is there a way to hook to PCs together via the parallel ports?
(Compaq '386 and IBM PC AT)  I would like to transfer files between
the two quickly. (and the serial ports are used.)
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/* End of text from convexe:comp.sys.ibm.pc */

Answer: go get a package called the Brooklyn Bridge.  It will allow
you to hook serial to serial at something over 100k baud, using one
system as master, the other as slave.  In addition, the slave system
appears to be a collection of disk drives to the master.  Such things
as DOS copy, print, etc., work (a bit slowly, somewhere short of
floppy speeds, but not by much).  Very reliable and easy to use.

The package comes in several flavors depending on the nature of the
serial connections which need to be made.  The most common flavor
contains a Y cable with a db25 on one end, Y'ed to a db9 and db25 on
the other end.  Very handy for desktop to laptop.  I forget which sex
the connectors are, but a gender-bender can change anything.

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