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Chapter 7
The Local Area Network
Setting up a network
The local area network,
or net, enables you and your friends to play
computer
games together,
and to send each other programs
and data. This
means that only one of you need ever type in a program.
A net is especially
useful. too. if only one of you has a Microdrive.
Using the lead supplied
with each Interface you can link up as few as two
and as many as sixty-four
Spectrum
computers,
as shown below.
Note, however,
that you and your friends should
not form a loop of
computers:
the computers
at each end of the net should
never be connected
to each other.
Each should be left with one net socket free.
NEVER
SWITCH
ON OR OFF A SPECTRUM
WHICH
IS ON A NET
WHILE
COMMUNICATION
IS IN PROGRESS.
You may, however,
have a switched
off Spectrum
on the nei; and you may also switch
on
or off Spectrums
which
are on a net provided
that communication
is
not in progrf?s.
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