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Dear Tony & Group,
Several years ago, one of my trading friends used a Y-connection signal
splitter (as is standard with a BMI Box) from the Signal Box to two
computers running WFW and TS ver 3.51. One computer was a Pentium, the
other was a 486. He told me that his system worked fine, although he
had to boot the Pentium first and thereafter the 486. If his Pentium
crashed, he had to turn off the 486 and then go through the Pentium then
486 reboot. If he booted in the order of 486 then Pentium, nothing
worked.
Sincerely,
Richard Josslin
Tony Parker wrote:
> RT's:
>
> I've been fooling around with the concept of splitting my DBC
> Signal Data stream to go to either two separate Application
> Programs or two separate PC's. I'm quite happy to go whichever
> way the process works.
>
> I want to run both TradeStation 4.0 and an old but venerable DOS
> Version of Signal which is really alot nicer than it's newer
> Windows versions.
>
> I've located a source of various levels of Serial Data Signal
> Splitters, from the really cheap and cheerful for about $19.99
> all the way up to more sophisticated "Intelligent" Com Server
> Signal Device Data-Line Sharing Devices that can cost as much as
> $700.00.
>
> I've already tried a Rube Goldberg device and it sort of worked,
> The old Dos Signal Proggie loaded and worked fine, TS4 also
> loaded and sort of worked but There was some kind of minor
> intermittant conflict between TS4 & Signal.
>
> So I'm really interested in feedback on the following:
>
> Has anyone out there sucessfully done this and how? What kind of
> hardware was used? Which Application Programs were used? Were
> there any special "tricks" in configuring, loading, and running
> the Application Programs to keep them from conflicting??
>
> Did you succeed with the Rube Goldberg $19.95 devices, or did you
> have to use the more expensive Gizmos.
>
> Does anyone have some of the DBC Specs on the Way DBC Signal Data
> is transmitted? Is it Polled data? What kind of Flow control is
> used? Does anyone know where those kind of specs can be obtained?
>
> If I do succeed I'll post my results to RT.
>
> TIA
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