16 Aug
1998
16 Aug
'98
10:28 a.m.
I just grabbed a portable terminal called an Informer. It says its from
Los Angeles and is model #207P Serial #55861 -4055
Anyone know anything about it before I try to fire it up?
colan
16 Aug
16 Aug
10:46 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
I just grabbed a portable terminal called an Informer.
It says its from
Los Angeles and is model #207P Serial #55861 -4055
Anyone know anything about it before I try to fire it up?
I have three of these beasts. I would hardly call them portable but you
may be talking about a differnet model than mine. The ones I have are
definitely desk-bound. They are cute looking, with a small (8") screen
mounted to the side of the keyboard on a cylinder and can swivel left and
right.
I have the manual but don't know much about them. I got them last year
and, as with everything else I've acquired since then, haven't had a
chance to sit down and play with them.
If yours matches the description of mine then one day I'll pull the manual
(haven't the foggiest where it would be at this point) and help you do
something with it.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ever onward.
September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 08/09/98]
11:17 a.m.
Actually, this IS portable. It looks like a small sewing maching and
doens't weigh that much. After I posted I found stuck insid the fake
leather carrying case the manual. It looks like its a 207-100
workstation. The one your describing sounds like a 203 or 205. The,
almost, best part of this find is that a man who owns a used computer
store was standing behind me as I grabbed it. I've dealt with him before
and he's not the most pleasant person in the world so I don't feel any
guilt at all.
Thanks for the reply. Boy am I happy. This makes up for the
Hypericon I let go a while back.
Colan
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
I just grabbed a portable terminal called an
Informer. It says its from
Los Angeles and is model #207P Serial #55861 -4055
Anyone know anything about it before I try to fire it up?
I have three of these beasts. I would hardly call them portable but you
may be talking about a differnet model than mine. The ones I have are
definitely desk-bound. They are cute looking, with a small (8") screen
mounted to the side of the keyboard on a cylinder and can swivel left and
right.
I have the manual but don't know much about them. I got them last year
and, as with everything else I've acquired since then, haven't had a
chance to sit down and play with them.
If yours matches the description of mine then one day I'll pull the manual
(haven't the foggiest where it would be at this point) and help you do
something with it.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ever onward.
September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 08/09/98]
3:48 p.m.
I just grabbed a portable terminal called an Informer. It says its from
Los Angeles and is model #207P Serial #55861 -4055
Anyone know anything about it before I try to fire it up?
The one I got 10 years ago was a combination 3274 terminal controller
and 3270/3278 terminal that spoke SNA for dialling up to an IBM SNA
network. You can apparently hook multiple Informers together, using one
as the 3274 and the others as terminals only, each as different logical
units (LUs).
It's interesting if you need to call into your local 3090, but you can't
get on the 'net with the model I had. Among other problems, it was EBCDIC,
not ASCII. YMMV.
-ethan
7:41 p.m.
This will be great for dialing up McGill University as this is exactley
the terminal required. No more tn3270, I can get on directly.
Unfortunately my phone bill will be a bit high :-)
Colan
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I just grabbed a portable terminal called an Informer. It says its from
Los Angeles and is model #207P Serial #55861 -4055
Anyone know anything about it before I try to fire it up?
The one I got 10 years ago was a combination 3274 terminal controller
and 3270/3278 terminal that spoke SNA for dialling up to an IBM SNA
9477
days inactive
9477
days old
4 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
cdrmool＠interlog.com -
dastar＠ncal.verio.com -
erd＠infinet.com