-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 12:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 08:50:26AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote:On 23-Jan-08, at 9:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:The last time I had an actual real-live VT220 on my desk was 1991.I've got a bunch of them here on a skid if you want another one :-) With some Wyse and other brands for variety. I'll sell the serial port multi card(s) if somebody actually wants it.... BrianWhere's "here"? What bus does the serial multi-port card go on (ISA/PCI/PCI-e)? As for the VT220, on of the reasons that I've bought the VT520-A6 is that, while it came with a dedicated keyboard, it can use any normal 101-104 PS/2 keyboard. Looking at eBay, there are lots of termials available without a keyboard but very few keyboards for the terminals. I was unable to get users manuals for the Wyse to know what keyboards they can use (or how, eg., to get to the config menu).
Here is Central Ontario, Canada - shipping a complete terminal was a tongue in cheek crack to the gentleman in LA, USA
The VT220 and 320s I have all take a custom keyboard that was their downfall - it died before the terminal. The Wyse 50's and 60's took a custom keyboard too - but with them the terminal itself died first.
Heck, I might still have some terminal manuals although I did pitch a lot of that stuff last summer.
The serial card is a PCI card - IBM branded -
Serial controller: Equinox Systems, Inc. SST-16P RJ Adapter (rev 4)
There's a second one that's now unused as well, but I'm not going to shut down that server to remove it :-)
Come to think of it - I bet there's a 32 port card and concentrator boxes in our old ( long shelved but not discarded )
RS6000 - but that one would be MCA bus (or whatever that IBM thing was).I think I'm drifting OT here - if anybody actually is interested in that old stuff drop me a line off list...
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