Greg writes:

> I have a customer in Hawaii, who is going to move to LA next month.  They
> are
>  going to move their HP3000 Series 927LX to LA and keep HP2562 Serial
printer
>  with a PC/Reflection in Hawaii.  What is  the best way to utilize the
> printing
>  with the minimum phone line charges (ie: mux?  Connect 2562 to the PC
> locally,
>  then transfer the spoolfiles to the PC???).  They will be doing fair amount
> of
>  printing...

The best way to minimize phone charges is not to use the phone lines at all.
If the 927 is on 5.5, you have telnet access now. That means that you can use
the internet as constant connection to any HP3000, anywhere in the world now,
24 hours a day, at no charge.

If this isn't a deal, it's hard to imagine what is.

Adager (Idaho), Joe Geiser (BSEPA), Jeff Kell (Tennessee), and occasionally a
few other members of this list (California, South Africa, etc.) have been
gracious enough to let me have telnet access into their HP3000s for the last
half year. Because of this, I have become increasingly quite enthusiastic
about what the near-term future holds for the HP3000. You can do anything that
you would ordinarily do over modem access using telnet, it's just that now you
have no concerns about connection duration. And, if you have even moderate
bandwidth, the channel speed is higher than you would get with a 28.8 modem.

While we've been working with HP to greatly improve the psychological nature
of telnet, Reflection's implementation of telnet is a standard, full-duplex
implementation, thus it may seem irritatingly slow at times, but once printing
begins, you'll never notice it. The flow is all one way. And at its very
worst, just keep repeating to yourself, "Gee, this is free!"

Wirt Atmar