Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/20/18 3:10 AM, Evan Linwood via cctalk wrote: I've started to more aggressively archive material on old IBM and compatible coax and twinax I'm not sure if this helps - they seem like they may be in the disposal chain though, might possibly be able to grab manuals if they come up?

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-20 Thread Evan Linwood via cctalk
> I've started to more aggressively archive material on old IBM and compatible > coax and twinax I'm not sure if this helps - they seem like they may be in the disposal chain though, might possibly be able to grab manuals if they come up?

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Jason T via cctalk
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > I've started to more aggressively archive material on old IBM and compatible > coax and twinax > terminals and was wondering if anyone has documentation scanned or squirreled > away that I don't > already have on bitsavers. Most

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 19, 2018, at 3:24 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On 9/19/18 12:04 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> I haven't heard any discussion about the Fujitsu coax terminals. > > There hasn't ever been much talk on cctlk about non-ASCII terminals. > > It's one of those

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/19/18 12:04 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > I haven't heard any discussion about the Fujitsu coax terminals. There hasn't ever been much talk on cctlk about non-ASCII terminals. It's one of those things that never crossed my mind before having to deal with that world in the context

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
I haven't heard any discussion about the Fujitsu coax terminals. I had a few, but scrapped them back in the mid 1980s. I saved a couple of the hermaphroditic twinaxial connectors from them, however. I don't recall seeing such connectors anywhere else. --Chuck

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/19/18 11:08 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > So would you be emulating the 3174's twinax connection and the functions it > provides?  Functionally being (what I think > is) a controller that would in turn communicate via TN3270 across the network > to Hercules? correct.

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 09/19/2018 12:08 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: So would you be emulating the 3174's twinax connection and the functions it provides?  Functionally being (what I think is) a controller that would in turn communicate via TN3270 across the network to Hercules? You jostled my brain enough

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 09/19/2018 10:35 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: I have also been thinking about something like the 3megabit ethernet cape that Ken Schrriff did https://github.com/shirriff/alto-ethernet-interface except it would replace a 3174. 3174-23R with ethernet option is complete overkill for a

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Den ons 19 sep. 2018 kl 18:15 skrev Al Kossow via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > I've started to more aggressively archive material on old IBM and > compatible coax and twinax > terminals and was wondering if anyone has documentation scanned or > squirreled away that I don't > already have on

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
>> Bob Rosenbloom let me borrow a 3178 keyboard to document. typo, meant 3278

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/19/18 10:02 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: >> Bob Rosenbloom let me borrow a 3178 keyboard to document. > > Hmm. Isn’t that just a standard IBM 5 pin DIN keyboard? That’s all I have > for my > 3179s and I thought that the 3178 had the same keyboard (but I could be > mistaken… > hey, it

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
I just wanted to send this privately. I have a number of 3278/79 keyboards that I could *loan* you (as I have exactly the number of keyboards to match terminals) for documenting. The problem is getting together. I was just down in Santa Clara a couple of weeks ago for work and I probably

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
> On Sep 19, 2018, at 9:35 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On 9/19/18 9:03 AM, Alexandre Souza wrote: >> time for a ps2-to-3274-terminal-adapter? > > yes, or at least get all the 25-pin parallel keyboard protocols documented > before a keyboard in thousands of dollars instead of

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/19/18 9:03 AM, Alexandre Souza wrote: > time for a ps2-to-3274-terminal-adapter? yes, or at least get all the 25-pin parallel keyboard protocols documented before a keyboard in thousands of dollars instead of hundreds. Bob Rosenbloom let me borrow a 3178 keyboard to document. I have

Re: ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Alexandre Souza via cctalk
time for a ps2-to-3274-terminal-adapter? Enviado do meu Tele-Movel On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 12:47 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I've started to more aggressively archive material on old IBM and > compatible coax and twinax > terminals and was wondering if anyone has documentation scanned or >

ISO 70's and 80's coax and twinax terminal docs/brochures

2018-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I've started to more aggressively archive material on old IBM and compatible coax and twinax terminals and was wondering if anyone has documentation scanned or squirreled away that I don't already have on bitsavers. Most of these have been scrapped by now, and surviving keyboards for them are