On 08/01/2013 17:58, Richard wrote:
  In article
<CAH1BU=_qEb_i=4uW1DvfdrUucpZz76WBVk5b9ThN2dg22sz3rA at mail.gmail.com>,
      Michael Thompson <michael.99.thompson at gmail.com> writes:
 The University of
Delaware Electrical Engineering department had
 several of these in their machine room circa 1982.  I can't remember
 what they were used for; I think it was for research being done by a
 particular professor because I don't recall ever hearing of them being
 used for student work.  Instead we were using the PDP-11/70, and I
 think later a VAX, for C and FORTRAN related homework. 
 In the UK we used them to
provide X.25 connections to VM/CMS but I have
 forgotten everything I ever knew about them...
 
I think I also remember them being used to enable ASCII terminals to emulate
3270 terminals for an IBM mainframe, before IBM 7171 protocol converters came
into use, unless that was a completely different machine also called series1...
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.