On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:41 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
For $88, it's prob close to a handful of people here who could pick up, someone I am sure could make use of this for their IBM 80's 90's mainframe stuff...I know Dave McGuire has an IBM S/370 system that use two of these as part of it at the museum in Pittsb. The're used to connect printers and terminals.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-3174-11R-CONTROLLER-DATA- PROCESSOR-/142073134011?hash=item211437fbbb:g:XiYAAOSwUuFWv0sw
-- Bill Degnan
It looks like this terminal controller uses SNA not Bus and Tag(Parallel channel IO) through Bus and Tag could be added through another I/O card, this is also the single floppy drive model so that limits its functionality a bit over the 2 floppy model. They are not that bad to move, just really an awkward size, shape (I have managed to take one and stack it on top of a DEC short rack without too much trouble). -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG