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Connecting two XTs.

#17
From: Jonathan R. Herr
Date: Sun, 06 May 1990 19:54
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Hello.  I'm trying to revamp an XT that lost it's Disk Drive last fall to 
a fire in our house.  I've just finished testing the mother board and the
controllers and they are all okay.  What I'm wanting to do with this extra
computer is use it for a BBS.  But, it will need to access the hard drive 
from the identicle computer that I bought to replace it (I figured it was
a gonner!).  What I'm needing to know is what I can do to access the other
drive.  I'm not familiar with the Intel system and these have NEC V20
processors in them anyway.  Is there any possible way to hook these two
machines together without spending a whole lot of money?  In an educated
guess, I'd think I could do it through a parallel or serial port.  But,
I'm not yet brave enough to experiment.  I'm not real hip on going out and
buying a LAN system just to do it either.

Here's what they have:

  BOTH:
	NEC V20 Processor on Protek mother board
	Parallel/Serial Port
	5.25 Floppy Controller(dual)
	1200bps Databyte Modem
	8 expansion slots

  NEWEST:
	Seagate ST225 20Meg. Hard Drive and WD1004A-WX1 Controller
	star NX-1000II Dot matrix printer
	GoldStar 12 inch monochrome monitor and Hercules Graphics adapter.

Any information or pointers thereto would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
==|Jonathan R. Herr|---|herrj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu|---|Standard Disclaimer|==
=    And If you feel that you can't go on.  And, your will is sinking low.    =
=  Just believe and you can't go wrong.  In the light you will find the road. =
================================|Led Zeppelin|=================================
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From: herrj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jonathan R. Herr)
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Subject: Connecting two XTs.
Keywords: What do I need?  What can I do?
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Date: 6 May 90 19:54:03 GMT
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