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Re: Connecting two XTs.

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From: crmeyer
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 04:53
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In article <44146@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, herrj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jonathan R. Herr) writes...
> 
>Hello.  I'm trying to revamp an XT that lost it's Disk Drive last fall to 
>a fire in our house...  Is there any possible way to hook these two
>machines together without spending a whole lot of money?

One easy solution is a program called the $25 network from Imodes. Its
hooks 2 or 3 PC's together via the serial port at a transfer rate of
about 115K baud. It runs in the background and takes up very little
memory. I know of other people running BBS's using this program in a 
similar enviroment. The adress is:

	Information Modes
	P.O. Drawer F
	Denton, TX 76202
	(817) 387-3339
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