Re: Twinax Consoles

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Now THIS has potential... can you use it in place of a 
> system console, Justin?  'Cuz if you can, that one less tube
> and keyboard on my desktop; that's be worth the price of the
> card!

I should think so. For many years, we used an old 
"pizza-box"-sized PS/2, whose hard drive had long-since 
bit the dust, with a text-based terminal emulator (the one 
that came with the Andrew twinax cards, something to the 
effect of "3x-twin"?) running on it. We only put in the 
Yestation because it was cheap, took up less room, and 
didn't depend on loading the emulation software off a 
floppy disk. Theoretically, it, too, could work with a 
flat-screen monitor (as could a 3488 or 3489), except that 
when we tried it with at least two completely different 
flat-screens, the only one(s) it would work at all with 
were practically unreadable (to put it bluntly, they 
looked like s--t).

Incidentally, when buying an 8-input KVM switch for our 
computer cage, we also found that only one out of three 
would work with the Yestation, and recognize it as a 
legitimate input. We unloaded the ones that didn't work on 
eBay.


Speaking of eBay: Just because there's only one vendor 
with Twinax terminals on the block right now doesn't mean 
that situation is likely to last very long. Keep watching 
it for a month, and you'll find different vendors, and 
different products, coming and going all the time.

--
JHHL