Anyone heard of an "Informer"?

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Sun Aug 16 19:48:58 1998

>
> I just grabbed a portable terminal called an Informer. It says its from
> Los Angeles and is model #207P Serial #55861 -4055
>
>
> Anyone know anything about it before I try to fire it up?

The one I got 10 years ago was a combination 3274 terminal controller
and 3270/3278 terminal that spoke SNA for dialling up to an IBM SNA
network. You can apparently hook multiple Informers together, using one
as the 3274 and the others as terminals only, each as different logical
units (LUs).

It's interesting if you need to call into your local 3090, but you can't
get on the 'net with the model I had. Among other problems, it was EBCDIC,
not ASCII. YMMV.

-ethan
Received on Sun Aug 16 1998 - 19:48:58 BST