[OZAPRS] APRS Advice

[John Simon]

Ok Ray, if I can nominate who, I just might have a look in my "bits box" for 
you for the DB25octopus.  B-)


                         73, John de VK2XGJ
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Wells" <vk2tv at exemail.com.au>
To: "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] APRS Advice


> My system usually only reboots when I do something to it or the energy
> authority wants their employees to have lunch in the bush! Current
> uptime is 22 days.
>
> Only 50 pins? I have a full length 8 port ISA card (who remember when
> RAM came on one of those) with a DB 76 (or 78, who's counting) I'd kill
> for the octopus cable to db25. Actually, it came with a breakout box of
> 8 DB25 sockets.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>>
>> On 05/04/2009, at 6:50 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
>>>
>>> P3? I run a P3 for the bbs and aprs node, with 6 radio ports plus
>>> internet links. But that is under Linux :-)
>>
>> yeah, I was going to say. - P3 sounds like a bit of overkill for an
>> Igate ;)  The old Vk1 Igate (i.e. back when I lived in Vk1 ;) ) was a
>> K6-2-300 with 128mb ram.. And that was running a TCP/Modem BBS at the
>> same time..  Looking at the VMware management console for second.aprs,
>> it's currently pulling averaging 10mhz of the host CPU, so you'd
>> expect an igate (which would be doing 1/100th the traffic at most?) to
>> use even less ;)
>>
>> But as you say, that's under linux...  Once you add the gooey overhead
>> of windows, you'd want a P3 I guess..  Can't say I'd ever run anything
>> serious on windows.. It seems to want a reboot every time you pass
>> wind :)
>>
>> --DG
>> (Who's giggling like a schoolgirl after digging in the shed for an
>> esata cable this afternoon, and found his old stallion 'EasyIO' 8-port
>> ISA-slot serial card, complete with it's huge 50+-pin D-connector and
>> pigtails to DB25's :) )
>>
>> Damien Gardner Jnr
>> VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
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