The best terminal/PC tied to their AS/400 was a 486 (I think he meant besides the AS/400) which isn't bad if all they use the PCs for is a terminal emulator using the Windows client and an emulator card. They can hook to twinax that way and can work with ethernet, token ring or twinax. There was a way to drive an AS/400 control terminal from a token ring 16/4 or 10baseT ethernet card IIRC but it's been 2 yrs since I've monkeyed with the internals of an AS/400 so I forget how (or if it really is possible). The place I worked at had a schematic in one of the AS/400 manuals on the woring of the twinax block and I don't remember how the 6 port box was wired (if it had anything other than wires and connectors) => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Christopher Smith => Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:39 AM => To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' => Subject: RE: Twinax (was Re: Last run at the local Uni Surplus for a => while...) => => => > -----Original Message----- => > From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com] => => > I do happen to have some twinax baluns from a former tenant of a => > shop that my former employer took over. They previous guys => > had an AS/400 => > and terminals on peoples' desks. The best computer in the place was a => > 486 tower, in 2000! They were in the forklift business - => => Wait -- if I understand you properly, they had an AS/400, but the best => computer was a 486? => => I'm missing something here, and I'm certain to be near enlightenment => when I figure it out... => => Chris => => => Christopher Smith, Perl Developer => Amdocs - Champaign, IL => => /usr/bin/perl -e ' => print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); => ' =>

There are newer multiplexers (fiber even like the one at http://www.nlynx.com/pdfs/MULTI-001-ExpMultplx.pdf ) that allow you ro hook the MUX to the port that the 8 port brick normally attaches to, and alleviate the brick and twinax altogether. You might start snooping Decision Data, Blackbox and other midrange resellers to get ideas and then maybe you might luck out on an auction somewhere for a used one - as an interim to the 8 port brick.