More Pick info (was Prime 2250)

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com>
Date: Sun Apr 11 21:59:19 1999

  Hi Jay, thanks for the amplifying infor re: PICK.

  The system I rescued came complete with docs and backup software.
It was meticulously maintained while in service and decomissioned the
way *all* vintage systems should be, ie. everything marked and
packed in boxes, covered in plastic, etc.

  So I do have the docs.. I just haven't plowed down to that part
of it yet. Fortunately the previous owner has made himself
available for 'consultation'. When I called him this evening to tell
him his old system had returned from the Sleep of Scrap, I mentioned
the slowness of the console port. He said that, while the actual
*console* baud rate could be sped up, that the CPU apparently polls
that port at some multiple of baudclock, and that faster port =
slower machine.

  He said what you mentioned, that the console was for booting and
error logging, and that Administration was better off accomplished
on one of the AMLC ports, which will go 9600 at least.

 I haven't hooked up any of the terminal lines yet.. I just wanted
to so if it would still boot.. and so it does.

  Thanks for your help, BTW!


  Cheerz

John
Received on Sun Apr 11 1999 - 21:59:19 BST