Re: Curious about IBM PCI Twinax card for PC experiences.

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HA! Twinax PC hardwre... First put on in an IBM PC in 1984. The PC had a 
hard drive and enabling the emulation software made the hard drive 
disappear (The board swiped IRQ 5 which was shared by the HD Controller.)

These days I don't have a PC with a slot that would even take a twinax 
card. Although, I've never looked, maybe someone made one for PCIe???

Either way it's going to be a software thing. If you have software for 
the card that supports your PC O/S (e.g. Windows XP will be good, 8 will 
likely be a disaster) then you are OK.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 8/11/2014 4:23 AM, Rene K. wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I was curious if anybody has ever worked with these IBM PCI Twinax adapter cards (for PC) that you sometimes see on Ebay.
> Are these good substitutes for a 5250 console? Or are they something to steer away from?
>
> I'm considering putting one of these in my Operations Console PC, as a addition to it's LAN console functionality.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene.