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You're not my type [3270 terminal types and coax controller chips]]

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From: ohl...@charter.net (Louis Ohland)
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Subject: You're not my type [3270 terminal types and coax controller chips]]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:20:16 -0600
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by: Louis Ohland - Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:20 UTC

So. Without the benefit of industrial plum brandy, I >think< there is a
slightly better understanding of the 3270 emulators.

Terminal types A and B. The functionality of the terminal is the type.

Coax controller chip, type A or B. B is the original, RG-62, 93 ohms.
Type A came out later, it added the ability to use 150 ohm STP -WITHOUT-
needing an external balun [so, it was gender-fluid, 93 -or- 150]

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by: gfretw...@aol.com - Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:59 UTC

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:20:16 -0600, Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net>
wrote:

>So. Without the benefit of industrial plum brandy, I >think< there is a
>slightly better understanding of the 3270 emulators.
>
>Terminal types A and B. The functionality of the terminal is the type.
>
>Coax controller chip, type A or B. B is the original, RG-62, 93 ohms.
>Type A came out later, it added the ability to use 150 ohm STP -WITHOUT-
>needing an external balun [so, it was gender-fluid, 93 -or- 150]

Using the proper balun they would all run on twisted pair. Our whole
office was on the IBM wiring system that used the big black "token
ring" jacks and you could plug in the appropriate balun/adapter for
3270 coax, TV/baseband coax, Ethernet, 4 wire Baseband or POTS
service. Obviously it also did T/R. We had a mix of stuff we used. I
was the only one using 4 wire baseband and Eduquest was using
Ethernet. Most were 3270 terminals.

The documentation is in Japanese. Good luck. -- Rich $alz

computers / comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware / You're not my type [3270 terminal types and coax controller chips]]

Subject	Author
You're not my type [3270 terminal types and coax controller chips]]	Louis Ohland
Re: You're not my type [3270 terminal types and coax controller chips]]	gfretwell