• Networking

    From Ole Juul@1:3634/12 to Richard Webb on Sun Mar 7 06:02:00 2010
    Hi Richard,

    So I pulled out a gaggle of PCI network cards to test.
    I'll just keep replacing them in my DOS box and see
    if I can get them recognized and find drivers.

    Also, did you say you might have a network stack
    that worked with dialup there? If you had that, or
    a network card, then I could mail you a CD with
    a whole complete setup of all the network programs
    on it - ready to go and just copy onto your HDD or
    something. I really like doing complete setups
    and it could just be a directory on your computer
    with that added to your path. Anyway, the idea
    of mailing you a CD with everything you'd ever need
    for using DOS on the internet, sounds like an idea.

    E-mail using "netmail" or other MTP is really a pain
    because of the different steps involved in writing
    headers and also taking the incoming mail and
    renaming it to something useful before you can keep
    track of it. However, I plan to set up a little
    system for myself again to do that more easily. You
    would probably like it and I'd send you the files.
    Still, Pegasus for DOS is already happening and
    it sounds like Nancy could send you a copy. I have
    no idea how to set that up, but she probably does.

    Just some thoughts before going to bed.

    Cheers,
    Ole


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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Ole Juul on Sun Mar 7 20:15:26 2010
    HI Ole,

    On Sun 2038-Mar-07 06:02, Ole Juul (1:3634/12) wrote to Richard Webb:

    I'll just keep replacing them in my DOS box and see
    if I can get them recognized and find drivers.

    Also, did you say you might have a network stack
    that worked with dialup there? If you had that, or
    a network card, then I could mail you a CD with
    a whole complete setup of all the network programs
    on it - ready to go and just copy onto your HDD or
    something. I really like doing complete setups
    and it could just be a directory on your computer
    with that added to your path. Anyway, the idea
    of mailing you a CD with everything you'd ever need
    for using DOS on the internet, sounds like an idea.

    Did have, before Katrina. I've got to get network cards.
    I've got networking in the linux box here, and the other two machines I've got are just bare bones motherboards and power supplies, waiting to be populated. That's why it had me
    curious waht you found, as I"d like to know what I could
    look for at a hamfest or other flea market situation for
    nics that I could have somebody get me drivers for if
    nothing else. IN NEw ORleans for awhile, before another
    tropical storm I think I was using slackware and a dos
    machine networked, also had the wife's machine on that
    network. I think it was LIly took a big part of that system out <g>. Katrina pretty much finished the process taking
    out other stuff that had network interface installed.

    THis dos box is a COmpac 133, originally set up with network cards, don't know what happened to them, because this one
    originally was off the net entirely as it ran recording
    studio midi automation using cakewalk for dos. IT survived
    the hurricane because it got a lot of my batch file
    enhancements, my homebrew logging software for radio work
    and resided at University HOspital NEw ORleans during
    Katrina. As I noted to you in private mail, it has only one older school slot.
    That slot it occupied by the speech
    synthesizer card, which I can't lose or I lose access to it
    <g>.

    E-mail using "netmail" or other MTP is really a pain
    because of the different steps involved in writing
    headers and also taking the incoming mail and
    renaming it to something useful before you can keep
    track of it. However, I plan to set up a little
    system for myself again to do that more easily. You
    would probably like it and I'd send you the files.
    Still, Pegasus for DOS is already happening and
    it sounds like Nancy could send you a copy. I have
    no idea how to set that up, but she probably does.

    I think I saw PEgasus elsewhere. Also, I've got this sysop
    editor, and i can easily make it part of the bbs thing which is what I"ve got in mind with zworg, mainly as a fidonet
    transport facility. I"d keep my current pots links via
    modem, but another capability is always cool.

    Just some thoughts before going to bed.

    INteresting. I haven't even put a cdrom drive in this
    thing. I think I've got one around here somewhere, and
    probably everything with the dos 6.22 which I had installed
    on this machine. WE gave the big heave to win95 or whatever was on here and rolled it back to dos 6.22 when I acquired
    it as part of a deal, a bunch of these compaqs through local radio club.



    Regards,
    Richard
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