IBM PowerStation 530

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Mon Sep 17 08:59:53 2001

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Blair J. Miller wrote:

> I read something about hooking a serial terminal up to the machine
> directly... Forgive me for dumb questions, but I'm assuming a serial
> terminal is one of those boxes that I keep seeing that has hookups for mice,
> keyboards, SVGA monitors, and the like? Also called a 'Terminal Station' I
> believe... Will this work? I don't even know if I'm asking the right
> question here, and I could be horribly, stupidly, wrong. :o) This thing
> comes from 'way back in the day' for me, before I was even interested in
> computers, so I don't know a whole heck of a lot right now. More research I
> guess...

I am not familiar with the Terminal station, it might work. Your best bet
for immediate results is to hook the machine to the serial port of a PC or
laptop and run some sort of terminal emulator.

There is the inadequate Hyperterm which comes with Windows which works
in a pinch, or Procomm, Reflections are common commercial packages and
there are a number of freeware packages as well such as minicom for linux.

I use Reflections or minicom to act as a console with my 7011-220.

Paul
Received on Mon Sep 17 2001 - 08:59:53 BST