---- Original Message ----
From: rhialto@azenomei.knuffel.net
To: cbm-hackers@cling.gu.se,
Subject: Re: HYDRA L.A.N.
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:51:10 +0100
>On Wed 02 Jan 2002 at 09:43:12 +0100, Baltissen, R (Ruud) wrote:
>> Hallo allemaal,
>>
>> First my best wishes for 2002.
>>
Hope everyone had a good new year. I myself re-started a couple
Commodore programming projects left idle years ago..
>
>> Anyone heard of this card?
>
>We had these in school.
>
>I think there is a PEEK-protection or something like that.
>
>Initialise with SYS (beginaddress), or for supervisor mode,
>beginaddress
>+ 3. I have a list of commands somewhere. You can get and put screen
>images and loaded programs from/to other computers in the net. Also,
>I
>think, designate one machine as a disk-access-server (load & save
>only I
>think).
I guess the next big question is the interfacing, what sort of wiring
are we talking here and was there a hub or is it chained from
computer to computer? (I would guess a hub with the name "hydra")
>Warning: once, after a vacation, I came back in the computer room of
>the
>school. I turned on one PET, nothing. It turned out it was not
>plugged
>in, so I plugged it in (crawling under the table). But I forgot to
>turn
>it off first. Above my head I heard a very loud buzz. I unplugged. It
>stopped. I plugged it back. Buzz again, and a very very nasty smell.
My brother did similar once to a PET with a hi-res graphics board and
a kurta digitizing tablet... There must be a law (like murphy's)
that the most custom or expensive computers are the most prone to
damage... (=-/)
Larry
If you haven't yet, check out my new web site:
http://www.portcommodore.com/
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