Last run at the local Uni Surplus for a while... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Apr 2002

Rumor has it that Christopher Smith may have mentioned these words:
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 From: Chris Craft [mailto:ccraft@springsips.com] 
  Just a question... do they ever get AS/400 stuff?
I need a 
 keyboard and some 
 cables for a 3151? terminal and the twinax to plug 'em together. 
This reminds me -- I have one of these IBM terminals with a twinax
plug on it.  Is there a reason it couldn't be adapted to use serial?

In other words, can I use it, or do I need to wait until an AS/400
falls into my lap? (*ouch*) 
AFAIK, you'll need to wait for a broken lap... the AS/400 twinax runs at
1.5Mbit and I don't think that changes at all; besides, I thought that the
AS/400 ran EBCDIC, not ASCII, which could make for some interesting looking
login screens... ;-)

But I've only worked a little bit here-n-there on AS/400's; for all I know
I could be full of condensed milk.

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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