[Coco] serial ports and thingsRe: moving files on bootup

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Willard Goosey wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:13:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have some stuff here now running on pl2303 or FDTI usb<>serial adapters.
>
>I've thought about going that route, but I've heard stories about
>buggy adaptors.  Now that I have most of my vaguely modern machines on
>ethernet, I've also thought about a small terminal server.  For years
>I've been lusting after a 3b2, 

You don't want it.  We had one for a cbs message machine for several years.  I 
very regularly overheated and died, must have had 10 motherboards, 3 drives 
and 3 or 4 monitors to keep it running for 8 years.  Heatwise a very badly 
designed case.

>but those seem pretty rare.

Now you know why they are scarce.

>My  
>favorite but most power-hungry solution would be a VME board with 20
>or so ports on it, supported by SunOS 4.  That would give me the excuse
>I need to get my 4/110 running. ;-)
>
>> Good, now who can we invite that will bring the beer & chips?
>
>I know this guy in Albuquerque...
>
>> Seriously, that would be a long drive for me.  My last, 2 year long safari
>> into NM (CE at KIVA-TV in Farmington) cost me about $20k in real estate, a
>> lesson that is a bit hard to forget.
>
>Ouch!  A friend of mine is from Farmington, and he's got horror
>stories of the TV stations up there.

Stations?  Only one when I as there, KIVA-TV.  Jim Bakker and his ptl club 
helped us make payroll many a time, but he was never less than 8 or 9 months 
behind & probably owed them lots of money when he went down.  After I left I 
understand it was sold to KOB in Alb. (Hubbard) & they ran it as a full power 
satellite/translator for a while.  No idea what its doing now, or even if its 
still on the air.  Looks like it is, as KOBF or some such.  From the WIKI, 
Hubbard hasn't been exactly generous, ending all local news at all of their 
outlying stations in March of 2007.

It was a black hole for money anyway.  Everyone I know in the partners took a 
bath similar to mine.  The O-GM had a house built, and had to pay for it 
twice, the contractor skipped at the end of construction without paying his 
suppliers so they came after the GM for around 35 large.  Cash please...  I 
was lucky maybe, only lost 20 large when I decided it was time to get the 
hell out of dodge.  Little known fact of local real estate law in San Juan 
County if not the whole state, if you want to sell, you must FIRST pay it 
off, then you can sell.


-- 
Cheers, Gene
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