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#! rnews 2022 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Uses for an XT ???? Date: 19 Mar 1997 21:50:27 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 36 Message-ID: <01bc34af$cefdec40$7c01a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <332F54B8.167EB0E7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunnet.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37306 Chooka <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote in article <332F54B8.167EB0E7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>... > Hey all, > > I've got two old PCs - an XT and an XT Turbo. > > Their value is so negligable its not funny :) > > Since I've got no hope of getting rid of them I thought I'd put em to > some kind of us. > > Would it be worth hooking these up as terminals to the FreeBSD box ? > How would I do this ? > There's lots of 8-bit Ethernet cards floating about, there's a scrap dealer here in town that's selling 8-bit 3c503's for $10 each, for example. FTP a copy of NCSA Telnet, and look in it's configuration files. NCSA supports lots of 8-bit ethernet cards natively, as well as the general packet-driver interface. Packet drivers are available for practically all Ethernet cards, and if you cannot find one you can use odipkt in conjunction with a Novell LSL/ODI driver. I think that you can also, using NCSA Telnet, set the XT up as a remote print server, for printer sharing. If you have a lot of users printing, you can set them up to spool to the FreeBSD box via Samba (for Windows users) which then prints via LPR to the XT which has a printer plugged into it.