Re: Dedicated console

Hello James,

Am 21.05.2021 um 19:20 schrieb James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

[…] I am a terminal-jock, from the beginning.

Interesting read, thanks for that!

My very first AS/400 experience was with a 3487-HC.

Which features did this model have? It's not too easy to find information about models and sub-models of 5250 terminals today. Hmm.

I've started a table on https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/IBM_Twinax-Terminals_Overview from what I've found in the English wikipedia's 5250 article.

If anybody has further information to fill missing fields, or expand the table, please let me know.

And I find it extremely irritating that no emulator that has ever enjoyed official IBM support has even come close to the elegant aesthetics of a 3487,

I don't have 3487, only two green 3486-BGX (one with a tube with a broken neck — searching for a replacement tube in Europe! Biggest problem is to find one with the same screen slope. Electrically I can adapt almost any monochrome tube.), a 3477-HCX, and a 3477 with a white phosphor tube. Unfortunately, I can't find out the name.

and that IBM has thrown out a connectivity technology as bulletproof as Twinax.

See fellow commenters remarks. For me, Twinax is by far the easiest solution for having a console attached. If the machine has Twinax, and there's a Twinax-Terminal, though.

:wq! PoC