lowobservable

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1. 1.▲
   by lowobservable 6y ago

   I wish there were more terminals available. Unfortunately some of the more exciting models like the 3279 (a cool wedge shaped color model) and 3290 (large orange plasma screen) seem to be practically unavailable. Also lots of the earlier te
2. 2.▲
   by lowobservable 6y ago

   Yep, the IBM 3174 terminal controller Asynchronous Emulation Adapter or feature allowed you to connect ASCII terminals to a mainframe host and allowed 3270 devices to connect to an ASCII host. There were options from other companies in thos
3. 3.▲
   by lowobservable 6y ago

   The National Semiconductor DP8344 datasheet has some details on the Twinax interface and the 5250 terminal architecture as it was a later IC that supported both 5250 and 3270. I've not read the Twinax part in detail bit skimmed over it