-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> Think I'll follow your and Charles' advvise and go parallel.

 WC> What's the deal, hook up to the LTP1 port and run some sort of
 WC> software? Never messed with this stuff as this is really the first time
 WC> I've had two computers and with a bit of luck soon to be three.

 JH> I haven't done it in awhile, so going from memory. - - hook up the
 JH> special cable to both parallel ports,  boot one machine from FDD with
 JH> INTERSVR, then boot the other from FDD with INTERLNK.  If it connects
 JH> OK, then a screen comes up with reassignment of HDD letters in two
 JH> columns  - - "This Machine" and "other
machine".  Then you can transfer
 JH> files from whatever drive letter to whatever drive letter, as if it
 JH> were all one machine. -Note- Windows isn't involved.

 JH> This process I'm describing is best for 'single shot' data transfers
 JH> from one HDD to another. IMO for on a regular basis, rooting around
 JH> behind the machines to unhook any printer, and to hook up that special
 JH> cable and to reboot both machines to floppy diskette just isn't
 JH> something you want to do on any sort of regular basis.

No I don't like to wear and tear on these connections either.

 JH> With Win 3.x for workgroups or higher on both machines, it is possible
 JH> to set them up thru windows to be a little "Peer-to-Peer
LAN", which
 JH> would permint sharing of files, printer, and more.

 I have a 3.1 upgrade that claims to add networking.

 JH> But there's another way - - Ethernet -  10BaseT cards are cheep to
 JH> free right now, and for two computers, all that is needed is a
 JH> crossover cable,  no need for a hub or anything like that.  That would
 JH> work OK with WFWG and Higher.  For 3 'puters, a hub would be good, but
 JH> even without it,  the "server" machine could have the
printer, CD drive
 JH> and etc,  and the crossover cable could be switched back and forth from
 JH> NIC to NIC in the two "client" computers.

I could use an ISA network card in the 486 but am not certain any
longer I need to network. The H.P. has an NE2000 compatible
ethernet card.

 JH> Those crossover cables are right inexpensive -
 JH> BIR last one I bought was maybe $7 for a 14-footer.  Less for shorter
 JH> ones.  So here you go - here's another offer.   If you want to look
 JH> into that and satisfy yourself that it will work, I know I can come up
 JH> with at least two or three 10 BaseT ISA Ethernet cards for free (you
 JH> pay for the stamps).

 I've got the stamps as of the 3rd but it's no big deal anymore as
 both machines serve separate purposes however I imagine
 as I become accustomed to networking that will change ;-)

 JH> But the 100 speed NIC cards are now inexpensive also, and faster. [;-D.

 There's never going to be anything on the 486 requiring blinding
 speed and for the immediate future I'm limited to 56K internet.
 I'm buying a brand new 56K hardware external modem next month.

 WC>  I'm at kevlar{at}verizon.net and could use a few items.
 WC>  Nothing spectacular but a few items.
 WC>  I could use a 200 MHz Pentium CPU either MMX or not to bring another
 WC>  system up. I'll select the coputers-4-sale echo as well.

 JH> If you can verify that your mainboard can support the Intel VRE
 JH> single voltage Pentium chips (3.4 - 3.6) 3.5v ideal,  I'm sure I
 JH> can help you with that as well.  Lets take it to email, shall we?

Lets. Not a clue about the above except the label in the cover says
don't touch voltage jumpers only MMX - non-MMX as
required. I can pull the CPU if there's any clues printed on it?
Next month is my computer month!!!
Following month I max out the RAM on this machine too :-)
 
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