Transfer files between PC and IRIS?

[Bill Silvert]

In article <1991Apr5.232621.86 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcob at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Owen Baker) writes:
>
>Why not spend a little extra and get an ethernet card for the PC. There are 
>plenty of public domain PC ethernet drivers around with telnet and FTP
>support which is much faster then an RS232 connection. Im assuming here that
>your Iris has an ethernet port. 8 bit ethernet cards for PC's can purchased in 
>Australia for $200-$300 and probably less OS.

Is this as simple as it sounds?  I have a PI 4D/25 with an ethernet port
and a WD card for my 386 and absolutely no knowledge about ethernet.  I've
been informed that the PI connector is thick wire and the BNC T-connector
on the WD card is thin wire, so that I need an expensive interface box as
well as the cables.  Is this correct?  I would dearly love to connect
the two machines, but funds are limited.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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