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>  1. What "converter" boxes are available to accomplish what I need for:
>     - BSC 3270 devices
>     - SNA 3270 devices
>
>  2. What experience have you had with these converters?
>
>  3. Do any of these converters allow the device to access multiple
>     hosts (e.g. traditional connects to "IBM" host PLUS TCP/IP,
>     NETBIOS, X.25 or OSI connect to other hosts?
>

1)  Renex supports a hardware converter that maps an ANSII rs232  device
        into 3270 full screen presentation AND behavior (ie PF keys +
        protected fields, et al)

    It comes in either BSC or SNA line driver formats with
        8,16,32 ports, one or more of which can be configured for a printer.
        each port can be configured for 3278-{2,3,4,5} models.

2)  EXCELLENT!  Good relability, configurablity, and local service.

3)  As the TP line is point-to-point multidropped and hard-wired, the IBMish
        end will be a single CPU.  At Britton-Lee, ShareBase, we used
        A Pacific Bell System/85 phone system (you can use whatever) to
        'dial' the Unix system which gave the ability of a

        SINGLE terminal to ACCESS multiple CPU nodes!

        eg:

                           TERMINAL
                                |
                           phone-switch
                                |
                -------------------------------------------------
                |       |       |       |       |       |       |
                RENEX   Node-B  Node-C  Node-D  Node-E  Node-F  Node-G
                |
                IBM
                mainframe


        with anyone being the IBM.Big.Blue node



best wishes, Jeff
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