10 Apr
2006
10 Apr
'06
11:06 a.m.
It was the "mainframe" businss I thought was
overkill, not the
EBCDIC part. And yes, I realize they don't have RS-232 ports.
That's obvious from looking at the back of the terminal :-).
Yeah, I figured. :-)
You can connect a 3274 remotely via SNA, so _it_ must have some kind
of serial port that could be talked to with the SNA-ware which was
once common among minicomputer vendors, for example. There were at
one point one or two projects to build SNA stacks for Linux. Also,
Microsoft has an SNA gateway product.
Didn't they make cards for an IBM PC so you could
attach a terminal
of this style to it?
There was the "3270 PC", and a wide variety of third-party cards to
make the PC act like a terminal. Not sure about making it act like
a controller.
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