stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) (09/10/88)
If anyone knows of such an animal, would you please let me know. Thanks very much in advance. =============================================================================== |Curt Stevens (303)492-1218 | / | E-MAIL: | |University of Colorado at Boulder | o o | ------- | |Computer Science Department | | |arpa: stevens@boulder.colorado.edu| |Campus Box 430 | \_/ |csnet: stevens@boulder.csnet| |Boulder, Colorado 80309 | |uucp:{ncar|nbires}!boulder!stevens| =============================================================================== ======== | Curt | ========
jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) (09/10/88)
In article <3331@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) writes: > If anyone knows of such an animal, would you please let me know. Thanks > very much in advance. Depends on your local network setup, but if your IBM can do TCP/IP, and you've got some sort of Appletalk gateway (e.g, Kinetics), then it sure is hard to beat tn3270. It's a 3270 emulator built on top of the TCP/IP kernal from NCSA. It's available by anonymous ftp from NCSA and/or brownvm. -- Jeff Kantor US Mail: Dept. of Chemical Engineering internet: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu University of Notre Dame uucp: iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!jeff Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
jspear@afit-ab.arpa (Jon L. Spear) (09/10/88)
In article <3331@boulder.Colorado.EDU> stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) writes: >If anyone knows of such an animal, would you please let me know. Thanks >very much in advance. The only one I'm sure of is MacTerminal from Apple. Though there are dim memories of a reference to a MacIRMA. But then I don't do IBM... From the back of my MacTerminal box "...can emulate IBM 3278, DEC VT100 and VT52... for IBM 3270 communications, you'll need either AppleLine or an Apple Cluster Controller." For grins, I've turned on the IBM mode, and you get this funky pulldown keypad menu with 36 IBM function keys. As I don't have an IBM to talk to, I can't comment on the quality of the emulation. VT-100 emulation is excellent, but I've switched to Versaterm for various other reasons. I know nothing of the required (?) AppleLine or Cluster Controller. The MacTerminal manual says you connect to this at 9600 bps with 7 bits/char, so I'd guess EBCDIC <-> ASCII and possibly some other protocol conversion must be done external to the Mac. I'm unsure of the support status of MacTerminal. I don't believe it was transferred to Claris. The last Apple update was about six months ago to fix MultiFinder compatibility. Apple is somewhat committed to co-existance in the IBM world, so I'd expect them to support MacTerminal. List price is $125. I paid $100. Want to give it a try? My copy (with box, manuals, blank registration card, original disk, latest version) is yours for $49, UPSed anywhere in the US. Standard disclaimers apply. - Jon Spear (513-434-2597, 940-2D Pimlico Dr, Centerville OH 45459) -- ---- random rumors from Jon Spear, Comp Eng Student | With computers we can make a jspear@afit-ab.arpa or @blackbird.afit.af.mil | billion mistakes every second.
postmaster@mailcom.UUCP (Bernard Aboba) (09/12/88)
There is a program called TIN CAN available from YALE university that will emulate a 3270 terminal. It includes a proprietary transfer protocol which is available for IBM Mainframes for a modest fee. Note: You can only connect via modem with TIN CAN. It is not a substitute for a MACIRMA card. But it does work fairly well. --- * Origin: sun!sunncal!mailcom Palo Alto (415) 855-9548 (Opus 1:204/444) SEEN-BY: 161/444 203/34 204/444 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FidoNet: 1:204/444 UUCP: ...!sun!sunncal!mailcom!bernard INTERNET: sunncal!mailcom!bernard@Sun.COM US MAIL: Bernard Aboba, 101 First St. #224, Los Altos, CA 94022
spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) (09/14/88)
In article <422.232D1D58@mailcom.UUCP> postmaster@mailcom.UUCP (Bernard Aboba) writes: | | There is a program called TIN CAN available from YALE university that | will emulate a 3270 terminal. It includes a proprietary transfer | protocol which is available for IBM Mainframes for a modest fee. | Note: You can only connect via modem with TIN CAN. It is not a | substitute for a MACIRMA card. But it does work fairly well. | Nope. TinCan emulates a VT-100 (poorly). There is an IBM System-1 here at Yale that provides the 3270 gateway. BTW, you don't need a modem. TinCan will talk to the serial port. We have gandalf boxes at Yale that it was designed to work with. Joel Spolsky bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky Yale University arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!!"
postmaster@mailcom.UUCP (Bernard Aboba) (09/14/88)
You're right Joel. I should have said "Tin Can emulates an IBM 3270 KEYBOARD." The emulation itself is VT100. --- * Origin: sun!sunncal!mailcom Palo Alto (415) 855-9548 (Opus 1:204/444) SEEN-BY: 161/444 203/34 204/444 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FidoNet: 1:204/444 UUCP: ...!sun!sunncal!mailcom!bernard INTERNET: sunncal!mailcom!bernard@Sun.COM US MAIL: Bernard Aboba, 101 First St. #224, Los Altos, CA 94022