[vcf-midatlantic] UNIX TOWN --- Repair Workshop Signup for March 30 & 31, 2019

[Jason Perkins]

If anyone has something with an ISA slot, I just got an 8 bit, 4 port
serial card with the cable. I'm happy to lend it.

-J

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:39 AM andy diller via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> The 500-CS looks interesting.
>
> It's like the old Xylogics Annex Servers? I.e. some TCPIP port for the
> lan, and then 16 serial ports?
>
> So we can hook up say 4 terminals to 4 serial ports, and say 8 hosts to 8
> other ports- and you can mux the terminals to any of the other async ports?
> And also use the LAN to telnet into the 500 and then connect to a host?
>
> Do you have serial cables for it?
>
> Actually buying the Lantronix or Xylogics is the easy part- getting 20
> serial cables that connect is the hard part :)
>
> -andy
>
> > On Mar 28, 2019, at 8:54 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/28/19 7:09 AM, Martin Flynn via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> >> There are a bunch of Lantronix dual-port WiBox Wireless Device Servers
> in the CDL lab if it makes the task any easier:
> https://www.lantronix.com/products/wibox-dual-port/
> >> On 3/27/2019 9:45 PM, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> >>> I'm considering getting a lantronix or such type term server, i'll see
> if VCF has one we can use maybe in the warehouse this Sat.
> >>>
> >>> That will allow all our terms to connect to all the hosts via console
> ports if we can get one.
> >
> > I also have a Cisco 500-CS (16 ports). I haven't booted it in a while.
> > I have a nice large Cisco ACS (80 port terminal server). I think both
> > qualify as vintage. The ACS sounds like a leaf blower. ;-)
> >
> > --
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>
>

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