Re: Ethernet vary off/on - no twinax

[Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx>]

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> And be cost prohibitive.  To run one twinax console not only do you need a 
> twinax console, and the cabling, but you also need a twinax card, and the 
> slot to run it. Think "new customer".  Not an existing customer that has a 
> slew of these sitting around on a shelf.
>
> Built like battleships would have been expensive as the original 5251 Mod 
> 11, or 5292.  Weren't those a few thousand dollars - 20 years ago?  The 
> 3196 was a piece of garbage that the power switches broke a lot.  Replaced 
> several of those.

Probably a good guess on the 5251 price.  The 5292 was even more. 
Falling PC prices killed off the "highend" terminal market.

IBM's ultimate terminal of the 80's was the 3290 (mainframe 3270 coax). 
 It had a plasma screen and was capable of displaying 4 sessions 
simultaneously.  IIRC, the price was closer to $10K.


Keith