Informer 213 terminal - 3274 / 3178 compatible ?

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote: Some time around 1992, give or take, there were piles of Informer 207s for sale cheap at the Dayton Hamfest. We were doing Bisync and SNA products at the time, so we bought a couple. We were able to fiddle our environment enough to get one of them to connect - our flagship product was an SNA PU type 2, much like a 3274 terminal controller, but with interactive sessions via VT100 + software 3270 emulation instead of a real IBM 3270. My memory is that you could dial up your 37x5 (via sync modem, as Dave mentioned) from one Informer 207, then attach several "child" Informer 207s to the first, as if you had a real 3274 + multiple 3270s. I have to think the later Informer terminals had the same functionality (unless it was later determined that it was "better" (and/or cheaper) to do one-modem-one-user instead of supporting a remote office and multiple sessions off of one connection. Essentially, what we had to do with out Informer 207 was to provision our environment pretty much the same as adding a new 3274 and get the settings to match on both sides of the phone line. I think it took a few hours of fiddling to get both sides happy. The 207 was SNA-only. It did not support HASP or 3780, the predominant bisync protocols (we supported those on other products, and they are _far_ simpler than anything SNA). Sorry I don't have any data on the 213. It sounds like a device we would have liked to have had 20+ years ago. -ethan