Looking for a network device...
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Maybe somebody has seen such a device... Background first, I work for a company with 2 buildings, about 800 feet apart, connected via T1s, full TCP/IP is already configured. Well, we are consolidating to just one building. Unforunately, it's also a knee-jerk kind of reaction. No prior planning, etc. The PC Nets were easy to move. Unforunately, the company still has a mini computer, and it's 2 serial printers, on line. The company didn't account for it's power requirements, not to mention the thing is so fragile that there is a very real chance it might not reboot after being moved. The mini is a Prime running some environment called Primos. Kinda looks like Unix but barely. We only have the TCP/IP between our buildings. What we want to do is to move our serial printers and people to the new building but leave the Prime here, at least for a little while, until the power, etc. are set in the new building. Unforunately, that leaves these people walking back and forth between buildings every day to get printouts, etc. (We're only talking maybe 4 people actually doing the walking any more). What I'm looking for is a way to capture the output from the serial line on the Prime and redirect it across our tcp net to a destination of some sorts. Either directly to a tcp printer or to reconvert it back to a serial input into the printers. prime---->Serial Out---> Captured Data--->InternetCloud---->Redirected data--->Serial Line Printer. Anybody hear of such a device? Thanks, Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
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Maybe somebody has seen such a device... Background first, I work for a company with 2 buildings, about 800 feet apart, connected via T1s, full TCP/IP is already configured. Well, we are consolidating to just one building. Unforunately, it's also a knee-jerk kind of reaction. No prior planning, etc. The PC Nets were easy to move. Unforunately, the company still has a mini computer, and it's 2 serial printers, on line. The company didn't account for it's power requirements, not to mention the thing is so fragile that there is a very real chance it might not reboot after being moved. The mini is a Prime running some environment called Primos. Kinda looks like Unix but barely. We only have the TCP/IP between our buildings. What we want to do is to move our serial printers and people to the new building but leave the Prime here, at least for a little while, until the power, etc. are set in the new building. Unforunately, that leaves these people walking back and forth between buildings every day to get printouts, etc. (We're only talking maybe 4 people actually doing the walking any more). What I'm looking for is a way to capture the output from the serial line on the Prime and redirect it across our tcp net to a destination of some sorts. Either directly to a tcp printer or to reconvert it back to a serial input into the printers. prime---->Serial Out---> Captured Data--->InternetCloud---->Redirected data--->Serial Line Printer. Anybody hear of such a device? Thanks, Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
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Maybe somebody has seen such a device... Background first, I work for a company with 2 buildings, about 800 feet apart, connected via T1s, full TCP/IP is already configured. Well, we are consolidating to just one building. Unforunately, it's also a knee-jerk kind of reaction. No prior planning, etc. The PC Nets were easy to move. Unforunately, the company still has a mini computer, and it's 2 serial printers, on line. The company didn't account for it's power requirements, not to mention the thing is so fragile that there is a very real chance it might not reboot after being moved. The mini is a Prime running some environment called Primos. Kinda looks like Unix but barely. We only have the TCP/IP between our buildings. What we want to do is to move our serial printers and people to the new building but leave the Prime here, at least for a little while, until the power, etc. are set in the new building. Unforunately, that leaves these people walking back and forth between buildings every day to get printouts, etc. (We're only talking maybe 4 people actually doing the walking any more). What I'm looking for is a way to capture the output from the serial line on the Prime and redirect it across our tcp net to a destination of some sorts. Either directly to a tcp printer or to reconvert it back to a serial input into the printers. prime---->Serial Out---> Captured Data--->InternetCloud---->Redirected data--->Serial Line Printer. Anybody hear of such a device? Thanks, Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
A PRIME, my favoutite computer, I am amazed one is still running! The OS was written in FORTRAN, the source code should be with the machine. I am sure the other reply will solve your problem, I had hours of fun gettng RS232 working on the PRIME, oh happy days! If you want any PRIMOS info get back to me, I am still in contact with the guys I worked with on the PRIME, many, many yeas ago, so one of us should know the answer:-O maybe.
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A PRIME, my favoutite computer, I am amazed one is still running! The OS was written in FORTRAN, the source code should be with the machine. I am sure the other reply will solve your problem, I had hours of fun gettng RS232 working on the PRIME, oh happy days! If you want any PRIMOS info get back to me, I am still in contact with the guys I worked with on the PRIME, many, many yeas ago, so one of us should know the answer:-O maybe.
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette
Ted Ferenc wrote: A PRIME, my favoutite computer, I am amazed one is still running! Yea, we still have one still running. It's only used by 4-5 people any more. We have one person that absolutely refuses to move off of it. We have the 4150 sitting right next to the 2655 (Which is actually dead). We are absolutely terrified of moving them to our other building. This thing weighs a lot and we have a broken elevator. (It's only one flight, but still). We are affraid that once it's shutdown, it will never come back up.... I'm looking into that other post about solving our little printing issue. Thanks, Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
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Ted Ferenc wrote: A PRIME, my favoutite computer, I am amazed one is still running! Yea, we still have one still running. It's only used by 4-5 people any more. We have one person that absolutely refuses to move off of it. We have the 4150 sitting right next to the 2655 (Which is actually dead). We are absolutely terrified of moving them to our other building. This thing weighs a lot and we have a broken elevator. (It's only one flight, but still). We are affraid that once it's shutdown, it will never come back up.... I'm looking into that other post about solving our little printing issue. Thanks, Nick This are my own opinions. You know the rest.....
You brought back some good memories, actually we were offered the old PRIME free of charge a few years back. We used to run RS232 cables betwen various buildings I think the furthest was about 300/400 meters. I did my first major computer hack on the PRIME, rewriting the print spooler, a hack that PRIME used afterwards
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette