Old, but not

From: Brett Wish <bwish_at_pcfa.org>
Date: Thu Nov 12 22:16:06 1998

> Well, I don't know. My school just trashed another 286 system that
> they could have given to somebody (we do loan 486s to students in
> need). A pretty interesting machine, to boot. It's still in the
> bin, but I didn't grab it because of lack of room. I did grab the
> 5 keyboards they threw away, though. Speaking of my school, it has
> some sort of 'modem' made by IBM. It has a brown front, and a 5.25"
> floppy drive. Several membrane type buttons on the front, too. Anyone
> know what it is? It connects the school attendance system to a server
> downtown, and I have yet to find out what that is. Maybe they'll let
> me play with it for a while if I ask :) Noone has any idea what model
> it is, but everyone says it's really old.


I've seen several of those before, but never worked on them before. The
Arkansas Department of Motor Vehicles must still have hordes of those
things sitting in remote offices with dumb terminals attached. My guess
is that it plugs into something like an AS/400 or UNIX server. It's most
likely mid-80's era.
Received on Thu Nov 12 1998 - 22:16:06 GMT