30 Jul
2014
30 Jul
'14
6:53 p.m.
On Jul 30, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Jason T <silent700 at
gmail.com> wrote:
We'll I just won. :-). I'm bidding on another that has a cut cable. The one I
just won
Is a data entry keyboard and I really want the other which is typewriter layout. The
plan is to initially just swap the cables (assuming I win the 2nd one). I'm hoping
it
isn't too hard to recreate the cut end given a good one.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Guy Sotomayor
<ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
Don't you dare grab any of the keyboards I'm trying to get on EBay! ;-)
They're for the 3278 terminals that I've recently acquired.
No worries there - I just surprised at the demand for them. Unless
it's just you and one other bidder going back and forth on them :) I've also recently acquired a 3174-64R
controller (so that I can talk
to the mainframe through ethernet). ;-)
Thanks, that's one clue toward the eventually full setup. From what
I've gathered, most of the terminal controllers have cards/modules
that will determine what "comes out the other end." There's no real
mainframe around here so the goal is talking to Hercules on a PC.
With that in mind, I'd guess Ethernet, Token Ring and maybe serial are
on the menu.