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Re: For sale: AEA Pakratt Model PK-232MBX

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From: Marc Sarrel
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
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If you have to ask...

Actually, it's a piece of equipment called a Terminal Node Controller.
It's used to connect a computer to a Ham radio.  Basically, it's a
combination modem, network device and radio controller.  It takes
serial input, creates X.25 packets and sends them out the radio.  It
does the reverse when the radio receives a signal.  This particular
model also knows how to use many other digital modes (not just X.25)
common to ham radio.

I figured anyone interested in buying it would already know what it
is. :-)

Marc

In article <slrn4mqpa5.mb1.sethml@gluttony.ugcs.caltech.edu> sethml@ugcs.caltech.edu (Seth M. LaForge) writes:

   In article <mas-1004960034190001@mipsppp1.jpl.nasa.gov>, Marc Sarrel wrote:
   >For sale, AEA Pakratt Model PK-232MBX.

   For the few of us out here who don't know, just what _is_ an 
   AEA Pakratt Model PK-232MBX?

   Seth

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From: mas@doi01.jpl.nasa.gov (Marc Sarrel)
Subject: Re: For sale: AEA Pakratt Model PK-232MBX
Date: 1996/04/11
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