> Hi. In my last visit to a very nice junkyard (near Lisbon,
>Portugal) I came across a box, a bit larger than a DECserver 300,
>named DECmicroserver, having about 4 very large D connectors (3 rows
>of pins) named "line 1" in the back. Anyone knows what it is? (I'm
>really tempted to buy it).
Those D connectors carry synchronous data to and from IBM SNA boxes.
I've seen these set up in medium-sized businesses that had both IBM
networked mainframes/minis and DEC minis that need to talk to each other.
There's a beefier version called the "DEC Channelserver" which, I've
always inferred from the name, hooks to the IBM Channel architecture.
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Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 13:46:59 BST