pc's and ethernet

[rbriber at POLY1.NIST.GOV]

William Silvert writes:

>Is this as simple as it sounds?  I have a PI 4D/25 with an ethernet port
>and a WD card for my 386 and absolutely no knowledge about ethernet.  I've
>been informed that the PI connector is thick wire and the BNC T-connector
>on the WD card is thin wire, so that I need an expensive interface box as
>well as the cables.  Is this correct?  I would dearly love to connect
>the two machines, but funds are limited.

I run my 386 with a WD8003 ethernet card connected with a drop cable (connects
to the 15 pin socket on the back of the card) which runs 
to our thick wire ethernet backbone to which our Iris(es) are connected.
I am currently using Clarkson's version of NCSA Telnet 2.2D which works
great.  I run it under Desqview on the 386 which allows it to run in 
the background (allowing ftp to occur while I'm working on something
else in the forground).  The NCSA package has multiple simultaneous login
sessions, supports tektronics graphics (gnuplot runs fine), and has a 
reconfigurable keyboard.

I actually prefer working on source code at my pc much of the time because I 
can set the keyboard up easily to work with emacs so home, end, del, backspace,
ctrl end, ctrl home all do what I think they should.  Now I realize that
with some work I could probably set up emacs to use the iris keyboard more 
efficiently but I've never sorted that all out.

The Clarkson version of NCSA telnet also comes with a PC version of lpr 
allowing me to print files on the Iris' laser printer from my PC (and 
it works! (3.3.1)).

Total expenses:
WD8003 card (8 bit version) ~ $180
drop cable                  ~ $75
transceiver to connect to 
the drop cable to ethernet  ~$100
NCSA telnet program         ~free

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