SNA (was RE: I've discovered a new pleasure.)

From: Boatman on the River of Suck <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Dec 13 00:06:01 2001

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> One sick-puppy wrote:

Indeed.

> > I am pretty sure that I will be bringing one of my IBM S/390 G1's
> > to VCF East next year with VM, MVS, and Linux running. If anyone
> > else brings machines capable of SNA, FDDI, Ethernet or ATM, you'll
> > be welcome to hook up to me.
>
> I have an "Informer" terminal I could bring - it resembles a luggable
> VT-220 with a keyboard than snaps on the front of the CRT for storage.
> It has a 3274-equivalent inside and any terminal can act as a controller
> for others of its kind, daisy-chained as slaves. I got it for $90
> at the Hamvention back when I used to make SNA gear for a living.

Cool!

> Did the SNA-for-Linux project die?

I know they're still working on SNA support for Linux/390, but that was an
IBM/Marist project, and not something for regular PC Linux.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 00:06:01 GMT