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Suns-at-Home Digest         Mon, 11 Apr 94       Volume 7 : Issue  13 

Today's Topics:
                        Dying 19-inch monitor
                        Internet via Cable TV
                          LEDs on a SUN 3/50
                        Sun3/80 Parallel Port

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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 20:11:24 +1000 (EST)
From: malb@bellman.apana.org.au (Malcolm Butler)
Subject: Dying 19-inch monitor
To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu (Suns at home list)

Greetings,

The Philips 19" monitor on my 3/60 appears to be dying.  On powering it
up after returning from holidays recently, it gave a very dim image and
the text appeared out of focus.  I powered it down to have a look at
it, saw nothing obvious (like smoke) and turned it on again, this time
complete darkness and a strange buzzing from the back.  Still no smoke
or anything else.  The buzzing is pretty faint and seems to be coming
from the video circuits not the power supply.

Any ideas as to what is wrong, or things to look for or test, will be
very gratefully received.  The monitor is probably 6 or so years old.
I've used it continuously for the last 18 months, I normally run it 24
hours a day.

thanks in advance,

Malcolm Butler (malb@bellman.apana.org.au)

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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 94 15:08:01 PDT
From: breyer@pcsi.com (Larry Breyer)
Subject: Internet via Cable TV
To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu

I saw this article in Open Systems Today.

In it was a reference to a Cable TV company 
in Boston offering access to the Internet.

Has anybody else heard about this?

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:46:14 BST
From: "John O'Connor" <jpoc@strat-sys.bt.co.uk>
Subject: LEDs on a SUN 3/50
To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu

Does anyone know the meaning of the Diagnostic LEDs on a SUN 3/50?

My one has stopped booting, all leds on and no life on the serial
port.

Thanks		John O'Connor

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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 07:25:38 BST
From: spuddy!cross (Mike Cross)
Subject: Sun3/80 Parallel Port
To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu

 
Hi,

I've just been given a Sun3/80 running 4.1.1.  While I was setting up the
system I noticed the Parallel port (a very nice feature), however when I 
connect a standard PC Printer to the port using my standard PC/Printer
cable (which works perfectly) I get the following:

Command:
    cat /etc/rc.local >> /dev/pp0

Printer:
    prints the first line of the file and stops.
    Turning printer off/on-line prints the next time and stops
    If you repeat the off/on switching you eventually get the listing
    printed but this is NOT usable.

Console:
   the console reports "device pp0 off line" or something like it,
   but the messages does not appear at the same time as the printer
   stopping printing or being turned off-line.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

Mike
cross%spuddy@britain.eu.net

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