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computers / comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware / Re: Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351) MICROCHANNEL FFF8

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* Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351)Louis Ohland
`* Re: Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351)Grant Taylor
 `- Re: Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351)IBMMuseum

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Subject: Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351)
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 by: Louis Ohland - Mon, 6 Sep 2021 18:01 UTC

https://www.ebay.com/itm/144181014150

As if I knew what this does.

Could someone give me a hint about this?

Re: Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351) MICROCHANNEL FFF8

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From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Auction: IBM 69X6292 - IBM - 36/38 EMULATION/A ADAPTER( 59X3351)
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 by: Grant Taylor - Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:28 UTC

On 9/6/21 12:01 PM, Louis Ohland wrote:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/144181014150
>
> As if I knew what this does.

I don't know either.

> Could someone give me a hint about this?

One of two things comes to mind:

1) It's an adapter to communicate with -- what I'm assuming to be -- a
System/36 or a System/38.
2) A CPU emulator for a System/36 / System/38 in the spirit of the
S/370 / S/390(-E) CPU / emulator boards.

I'd bet on #1 by looking at the picture. But the adapter makes me think
#2. Unless it's terminal emulation which would be in line with #1.

--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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 by: IBMMuseum - Mon, 6 Sep 2021 20:00 UTC

On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 1:28:25 PM UTC-6, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 9/6/21 12:01 PM, Louis Ohland wrote:
> > https://www.ebay.com/itm/144181014150
> >
> > As if I knew what this does.
> I don't know either.
> > Could someone give me a hint about this?
> One of two things comes to mind:
>
> 1) It's an adapter to communicate with -- what I'm assuming to be -- a
> System/36 or a System/38.
> 2) A CPU emulator for a System/36 / System/38 in the spirit of the
> S/370 / S/390(-E) CPU / emulator boards.
>
> I'd bet on #1 by looking at the picture. But the adapter makes me think
> #2. Unless it's terminal emulation which would be in line with #1.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die

It's a 5250 emulation adapter - The long version is multi-session (you could display all four in a quadrant or switch between sessions with hotkeys - it also works with the System/34 and AS/400). I've got one tucked away here somewhere that is NIB bought a couple of decades ago - along with the short microchannel version (it's almost just a single silver chip on the adapter) that is the conventional single session.

There's an auction of the proprietary twin-ax expansion adapters for the 5494 units too...

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