[SunRescue] IPX fun

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     Am I mistaken or doesn't the IPX have 2 separate 
serial ports?  Haven't looked at the back of mine since 
I got the 20  and the one I have in my stock room in 
school is so buried.....
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> So I went down to the Center of Wonderful Devices at university the
> other day, and picked myself up a pair of `we're not even sure if
> these work' Suns, a SPARCstation 1+ (which works beautifully) and an
> IPX[0].  Lacking the motivation to hook up a monitor and a keyboard to
> these beasts, I was talking to them over the serial console.
> 
> Again, the 1+ worked great, but I couldn't get any data out of the
> serial port on the IPX.  I note that the serial port on it is labelled
> A/B, implying it is one of those evil two-ports-in-one jobs.  I'm
> wondering if this could be what's burning me, as I lack the splitter
> to make it useful.
> 
> Alternatively it could be that the IPX is just shot.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> [0]: I am sooo pissed.  They had a pair of 5s and a 4 that I would've
> loved to get had *any* of them had any memory.
> - -- 
> Graham Hughes <ghughes at lynda.com>
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