14 Feb
2019
14 Feb
'19
7:52 p.m.
On 2/14/19 8:28 PM, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk wrote:
I'm finally in possession of a box that hopefully
is capable or can be
made capable of connecting a real terminal to Hercules. It's a 3174 11L.
It was retired last year where I work. I finally got the okay to save
it from being sent to a scrapper. I love the build quality of older
IBM gear, except when I'm trying to move such gear. Between the 3174
and a 9406-520 I also acquired, I pulled or strained something in my
left arm moving them into place.
Nice haul.
It has a token ring card. I will probably be able to
get the MAU it
was connected to, and possibly the router that acted as a token ring to
Ethernet bridge.
I'm quite interested in the network configuration.
You mentioned telnet, which largely implies TCP/IP, which in combination
with Token Ring means specific things. Things which I question about
how much of a "bridge" the device was as much as a gateway.
Or, if it's telnet like, but not actually telnet ~> TCP/IP, then it
could be other things, but I think they are more problematic to "bridge"
to Ethernet.
--
Grant. . . .
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