[Gllug] [somewhat OT] IBM 5250 dumb terminals or thin clients

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Wed Sep 28 11:56:00 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:28 +0600, Richard Cohen wrote:
> Don't suppose anyone knows of a ready and/or cheap source of the
> above, to plug into an AS/400 (aka iSeries)?  The factory here uses
> quite a few and apparently dumb[1] terminals are getting hard to come
> by, and thin clients are pretty expensive.

There are IBM 3270 terminal emulator programs, and I've used them way
back. You use them on a PC with IP type connectivity to the machine.
http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/
I guess you know that, and you need real terminals.
If you are needing terminals which use real paired co-ax cable, then
sorry cant help.


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