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From: thierbac@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Ed Thierbach )
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Trying to connect a PC to a microVAX 2000
Message-ID: <930@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 4 Apr 88 18:31:40 GMT
References: <3894@super.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: thierbac@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Ed Thierbach (UMUC))
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In article <3894@super.upenn.edu> spolsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>...
>
>What is the cheapest (under 50 cents :-) way to connect this microVAX-2000
>(VMS 4.6, three terminals, dial-up modem, communications port) to a single
>PC-Clone (serial port and some free slots) over a distance of 500-1000
>feet? [...]

You can buy asynchronous line drivers for about $150 apiece.  To the PC and
the MicroVAX, they'll look just like dial-up modems (and should be set up
that way in VMS), and all they require is 4 wires hooked up between them
(connect the transmit pair from one to the receive pair of the other).  The
advantage of these over modems is speed; typically they can run at 9600 baud.
Some can be as far as a mile apart; check the documentation.

>... (for various reasons getting Kermit on a
>TK50 is turning out to be harder than one would think).

If you send me a TK50, I'll be glad to put Kermit on it for you.  It may not
be the latest version, but you can use it to download a newer version.  You
can use the mailing address below, but please email me first so I can watch
for the tape (mail here being what it is).

>Thanks in advance
>--
>Joel Spolsky

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