Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 13:38:11 EST
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Suns-at-Home Digest         Mon, 15 Jun 92       Volume 5 : Issue  24 

Today's Topics:
                       About Sun3/60, slip, etc

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 20:43:14 EDT
From: gcd@einstein.bgsu.edu (Comer Duncan)
Subject: About Sun3/60, slip, etc
To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu

I may soon be seriously interested in obtaining a Sun3/60 color
with 4Mb for home.  I would have to buy a SCSI disk drive with
1/4" tape separately.  I have some general questions concerning
such a configuration.

First, what do you guys know about the likely cost of a disk with
tape where the disk has say 1 Gb?  I recall seeing drives for about
$2000 with 1 Gb, but have no clue about the cost of one with the
tape bundled in.  If the cost is big, I may want to settle for less
than 1 Gb.

Second, I am interested in perhaps putting up slip.  Do any of you
have slip up and running on similar systems?  Does it make sense to
run slip with a 3/60?  Is it necessary to have SunOS 4.1.1 up first?

Third, what do you know about the variety of modems out there that would
be of 'reasonable' cost and can do say at least 9600 without compression?
With compression?  The system I would connect to [a switch] has 9600
baud modems with compression [2 to 1, I think]. Another option would
be to buy two modems and have one connected to the Sun3/60 at home
and the other connected to my Sun4/260 at work.  A more expensive option,
for sure.

Fifth, does it make any sense to run slip between work and home if 9600
is the maximum speed?  With compression one apparently gets a [much?]
better throughput.

Sixth, given that one is going to have a Sun3/60 and disk drive running
at home, what do I need to consider as far as power requirements?  Must
I buy [ugh!] a UPS? Do you guys turn the 3/50 off at night and restart
when you use it every so often, or do you leave it on?

These are a few of the questions that have occurred to me since I have
began to think about havng a Sun at home.  I will appreciate the collective
wisdom on this list and hope you will give me your frank opinion[s].

Comer Duncan

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