Hello, Wayne.  We were talking about - -

 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.

Now that I think about it, INTERLNK might not work with Linux
partitions.


 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.

 WC>  I have a 3.1 upgrade that claims to add networking.

BIR that package came on a diskette or two and was called the "Workgroup
Extensions."

 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.

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

Well, the "need" to network would depend on how frequent the need to
transfer data from one machine to another would come up, and to what
extent the need to share other resources, such as printer, CDROM, etc.

How about the P200?  If you network, I'd think you'll want a NIC for
that one also.

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

I'm not networked here yet (lazy), but it would've been nice, when
earlier this week I needed to transfer a 6+ MB driver file from this
machine to another.  I could have dug out the laplink cable, but ended
up just using PKZip and spanning over about 5 diskettes.  Then I used
"sneakernet" to transfer the files to the other machine.  I share the
laser printer between machines, but right now I'm not even using AB or
ABCD switch - - just swapping cables.


 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. 
 WC> Lets. Not a clue about the above except the label in the cover says
 WC> don't touch voltage jumpers only MMX - non-MMX as
 WC> required. I can pull the CPU if there's any clues printed on it?

OK, if it is Intel, there will be an "S-Number" on bottom and top of it.
Post that, and I'll look up if it is Standard voltage or VRE voltage.
Example - -I'm looking at a P100,  "SY007", and looking it up, that
one uses Standard Voltage.  If it is Pentium MMX, it will be dual
voltage, with 2.8v core.

- - -  JimH.

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