[Info-vax] DSW41/42 option

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> John Wallace wrote:
>> On Oct 12, 6:46 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Volker Halle wrote:
>>>> A DSW41/42 is a SYNCHRONOUS WAN device. You can't configure this
>>>> device with standard OpenVMS drivers, you need to install the VAX WAN
>>>> Device Drivers kit.
>>>> Volker.
>> >
>> And, what are you supposed to actualy *do* with it ?
>>
>> You can talk DECnet (specifically, DDCMP iirc) to a compatible DECnet
>> box, or X.25 to the outside world, typically.
> 
> OK, right. What I ment was maybe more something like, what are
> you supposed to actualy do with it *today* ?
> 

Well, you COULD try to sell it as an antique, use it as a paper-weight, 
frame it and hang it on your wall. . . .

You could package it in a sealed container filled with an inert gas and 
leave it in the city dump to puzzle the archaeologists a thousand years 
from now!