5208 protocol coverter-Re: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400

[david bulog <d2ba@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Would a 5208 protocol coverter do the trick,I picked up 14 of these boxs
for $1 a piece.They can be found at brokers very cheaply.Before I
realised what these boxs were ,the same company loaded a jumbo bin full
of these and dumped them.Unfortunatly I could not save these :the next
day they where gone and I just got the 14 that they didnt dump because
of no room in the bin.

Dave B



eric wrote:
> 
> In the Black Box catalog there is are a few Twinax to ASCII converters.
>  They price between $895 to $2645.  It also looks like there are some
> twinax cards that you can buy for the lasers.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Eric Kempter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Chuck Lewis [SMTP:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> Sent:   Friday, October 09, 1998 7:19 AM
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:        Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400
> 
> Hi Folks !
> 
> New job, new environment, not where it needs to be but will get there
> EVENTUALLY :-)
> 
> Need to find a GOOD way to attach HP laser printers to the AS/400.
> 
> We DO NOT have a network (yet) and we are NOT running TCP/IP (yet)  -
> was doing both of these at my last job and miss that here... - just have
> "good 'ole twinax" here...
> 
> We have HP 4's, 5's and one BIG  HP 5 SI...
> 
> We are using Decision Data  terminals (when they work...) and I have
> managed to attach any one of the above mentioned printers to a DD and
> get it to print, with mixed results...
> 
> >From there it gets murky. There are a TON of different parameters for
> printing to configure on the terminal and some are obvious choices, some
> are not.
> 
> I'm wondering if it would just be easier to get the terminal out of the
> mix and "direct connect" these printers to the AS/400 and was wanting to
> know what others had done along these lines.
> 
> Thanks in advance !
> 
> Chuck
> 
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