13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
2:43 a.m.
> This reminds me of an IBM colour teerminal that I
rescued about 10
[...]
Somewhat
suprisingly for IBM, it was an ASCII unit.
Are you sure about that? It sounds a lot like the coax or twinax terminals that IBM made to go with 3270-controllers or
AS/400s
(respectively). The ones I've seen which match your description had an
RS-232 for a printer connection, but did their main comms through the
coax or twinax port out the back. I guess it might be ASCII but
probably isn't an RS-232 terminal.
Again from waht I remember, there was no twinax connector or anything
like that, just a DB25, which certainly looked to be RS232. I am pretty
sure that was the host interface.
I will have to try to fig it out (it's small enough that I've forgotten
where I put it... and check for you
-tony