[Coco] terrifying sysadmins for fun with UUCP was Re: old backups, RESTORED!

[gene heskett]

On Friday, January 07, 2011 10:51:37 pm Steven Hirsch did opine:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, gene heskett wrote:
> > I've been toying with the idea of setting up the dw4 stuffs here, but
> > the one question I've asked, is one no one has hazarded a guess
> > answer, a SWAG if you will, of how long I can make one of those
> > cables and expect it to work.  I can't get the run down to any great
> > amount less than 25 feet here without re-arranging the whole house
> > and still get it to work at at least 230k.  At that length, we
> > definitely have a transmission line that might have to have active
> > drivers and active terms on both ends.
> > 
> > Anybody want to offer a SWAG?
> 
> What's the source impedance of the bit-banger output?

I'll have to go look at the schematics before I'd make a SWAG on that.  
Certainly not down in the coax cable range.  I'll do that while I'm making 
the cable in the next day or 2.

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