S/36 is back on ebay...

On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:18, Richard wrote: A 5251 is a 5250-style twinax terminal. ASCII, but not useful unless you have an S/36 or AS/400 system to use it with. Twinax was the networking method that S/36 (and later AS/400, and possibly other S/3x systems) used to attach terminals and printers to the host. It's basically the equivalent of a 3270-style terminal attachment to a S/3x0 serial mainframe, except that on the S/3x0, you have some sort of terminal controller box between the host and the terminal, and 525x terminals attach directly to the host (each device has an In and Out port, so you run the cable from the host to Term 1 to Term 2 to printer 1 to ... and terminate the last device. newer (maybe all?) devices auto-terminate if there's no twinax cable plugged into the "out" port.) You can also pick up "5250 emulation cards", which allow your PC to emulate a 5250 terminal. All of those that I've seen are ISA cards. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org