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From: enwall@Apple.COM (Tim Enwall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: IBM connectivity
Message-ID: <32750@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 89 15:48:36 GMT
References: <4011*kenw@noah.arc.cdn> <23-Jun-89.183223@192.41.214.233>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <4011*kenw@noah.arc.cdn>, kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein) writes:
> 
>   Until recently, we had little to no interest in getting our Macs to talk to
> IBM mainframes.  Now we do.  For the moment, we want to connect to a 4381 
> running VM/VSE.
> 
>   What we envision is a Rube Goldberg arrangement that pipes the 3270-style
> output of the remote IBM's 3174 protocol convertor into a DECserver that talks
> LAT, over a 56kb ethernet bridge arrangement, through a local non-DEC terminal
> server to convert it to TCP/IP, and then through a Fastpath to a Mac running
> tn3270 or the like. 
> 
>   Now, assuming the terminal servers to what we hope, will this work?  Are
> there better ways to do it?  We don't have TCP/IP on the IBM beast, and it 
> would no doubt be expensive.  Suggestions, anyone?
> 
> /kenw

You might also think about two other possibilities:

1) TriData makes a box called the Netway 2000 which connects to the 3174 and
then to AppleTalk and distributes (so they say) up to 16 AppleTalk 3270 
sessions.

2) Apple just introduced a 3270 card and MacDFT which is 3270 terminal 
emulation for the Mac.  Each card would go into the Mac II and then connect
directly to the 3174.

Hope this helps.

Tim Enwall