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

I recommend that you quickly put these back into the garbage bin before
anyone notices.  They belong there.  they are completely useless.

Jerry

At 06:53 AM 10/10/98 +1300, you wrote:
>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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Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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