StarLink Multi-User System

Not the same thing, but similar enough to be relevant: AT&T made box (I think with an 80486) called a StarServer. It was a Unix box and had a card that could take two cables that went to "concentrators," which were 12 port (IIRC) addressible serial hubs, each with their own wall wart. The output went to a dumb terminal or serial-interface printer. Concentrators could be daisy-chained, so at least 4 could be hooked to one card in the StarServer. I baby-sat one of these in a law office half a dozen years ago. The concentrators were a real PITA, as they were static sensitive -- I blew one out once with a spark while connecting the RJ45 to a terminal once. Other times I must have looked at the concentrator the wrong way or some such. Got to know the local AT&T/NCR service tech pretty well :). Bob -----Original Message----- From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:07 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: StarLink Multi-User System On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Norman Alcott wrote: I believe I have something similar to this stored away. It has a full size card (can't remember if it is 8 or 16 bit, think it is 16), and a brown molded plastic "block" with 8 25 pin D-Sub connectors on it. The block connects to the card via a 37 pin D-Sub. Does anyone have any information on it or have the software required to use it? -Toth