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- From: Simon Brown <simes@amdev.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Home Network
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 20:26:06 GMT
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- The dancing digits of Rhiannon Macfie typed:
-
- > Hi there..
- >
- > At home, between us, we have:
- >
- > Amiga A500+ (I`m willing to bring my 4000 home if absolutely necessary,
- > but if there`s a way of getting the 500 in I`d rather that)
- >
- > PC Pentium
- >
- > PC 486
- >
- > Amstrad Notebook 300
- >
- > Psion 3a
- >
- > Amstrad PCW8512 (yes we do still use it :)
- >
- > Is there any way of networking all of the above with printers and modems,
- > and how much would it cost? (You can leave out the PCW if necessary :)
-
- Er, depends what you're going to do. If all the PCs have multiple free
- serial ports you could use serial cables to link everything together
- (this is known as "Nightmare Spaghetti-Net"). Don't ask me how to make this
- work.
-
- Or, you can get network cards for the PCs and network them together that
- way, and plug other machines into serial ports of various PCs. You could
- even get a network card for the A4000, but they're about 200 quid too
- expensive IIRC. This solution is known as "Ethernet with Spaghetti" or,
- alternatively, "ThinNoodle".
-
- The most obvious question is - what do you want to do with them?
-
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