11 Aug
2016
11 Aug
'16
7:57 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at comcast.net>
wrote:
It's not so much the baud rate but the character rate, at least for
something like a VAX. For a PDP-8, baud rate is important, too!
I have used (and continue to use) a lot of those AUI-TP adapters, and they
all seemed to be plug-and-play. I've also used old network hubs with BNC
connectors to do thinnet networks - necessary for some of my machines. Oh,
ISTR that a lot of VAXstations did have a button near the AUI and BNC
connectors asking you to choose. Choose wisely, Grasshopper, and you shall
be rewarded with packet traffic. Cheers -- Ian
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
Ian ;
I set the baud rate for 300, it was torture, but it worked. However, on
the vax I had to make sure the terminal width was set to 132.
The license file ran past 80 characters occasionally and screwed things
up, because the Vax would 'wrap' those lines.
The next hurdle is to get the networking functioning again. Are there any
tricks I should know about concerning the AUI to 10BaseT adapters?
It has been about a dozen years since I last did this and at that time it
was working.
Doug