16 Feb
2019
16 Feb
'19
10:05 p.m.
On 2/16/19 9:49 PM, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk wrote:
The 9121 voice server connected a T1 line to the
RS/6000 for use by
DT/6000. DT/6000 was used to create interactive phone menu systems.
Is that by chance a 9291? Looks like a white / bage box with a grey
strip on the front with lights or buttons and a serial port and ""phone
(PSTN) network jack on the back?
I suspect wherever I saw the term "bridge"
used, it was used in the sense
of providing IP connectivity from token ring to Ethernet, in the same
sense that a physical bridge provides connectivity between two banks of
a river.
ACK
Yes, that's what our RS/6000 was doing. It
connected via token ring
to the 3174 and screen scraped 3270 sessions to move data between its
phone menu system and our mainframe. You might find this interesting:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/lan/ZZ78-0355-0_IBM_Token-Ring_Gateways_an…
Probably more show than is health in this day and age.
I counter you with this:
https://www.argecy.com/3174
I don't have it yet. If I'm able to get it
with its config intact,
I'll share what I can, minus any company specific details.
Cool!
Based on the Argecy link above, I'm guessing that it's likely routed
TCP/IP. That would be the simplest option.
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Grant. . . .
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