To connect to the department's machines, you get your modem to dial the computing center, and then tell the modem server to put you onto the campus-wide network which is called UOnet. The preferred line settings are 8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit. The computing center also has a handout that describes their modems which you might like to get and read. Given below is a transcript of a session of a log in to comix, one of the Sun SparcStations with comments added. The responses from the various computer systems that you will encounter before the one you wish to use are in bold, while those of the user are in normal type.
Comments are in italics.
This message comes from the Computing Center Terminal server, which is the interface between the phones and the campus-wide network. From here, you can connect to any of the individual machines on campus. The connect command connects you to comix, and the rest is the name of the computer you are connecting to. It will not be echoed to your screen. Users often wish to transfer a file from one of the department's unix hosts to a computer at home.