14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
5:51 p.m.
On Monday 14 December 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Like Pete said, a MicroAnnex will do what you want. Personally, I
prefer Xyplex 1600-series boxes, because I have a bunch of them, and
they are what we have used at work bascially forever.
Ethan, if you would like one of my 16-port Xyplex 1600s, send me a note
off-list.
Pat
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I still use an
Annex for consoles on a few of my machines (like
some of the PDP-11s). They were made by Xylogics, later bought by
Bay Networks => Nortel and are sometimes to be found rebadged by
Sun. They're very versatile, and you can use the ports in all
sorts of ways.
I am familiar with Annex terminal servers, but only from a user
standpoint. I've never owned one nor set one up (in the day these
were popular, we had large amounts of real ports on our boxes (16-56
each) and no TCP/IP). Is there an annex model with 8-16 ports I
should look for? I really don't need to keep something with 48 ports
powered up.