[ale] 3151 terminal emulation?

[Mark Wright]

I wish I could change the type but this is an IBM disk drive  
controller interface.  It is a disk array that sits on a network,  
fiber channel or IBM's FICON channel.  ( a Shark ) I have to connect  
to the maintenance interface for the director portion of the box to  
do service on it if it breaks.

The only thing interface talks to is 3151.  You get a unformatted  
screen with VT100 but the F-keys don't work and there are not fields  
to tab to.

I may have to give up and find an old 3151 terminal to leave onsite.   
Right now I only have one site that has these drives.

Mark





On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Jerald Sheets wrote:

> I have worked on AIX systems for over ten years.  After giving up  
> trying to find a quality 3151 emulator, we implemented all  
> connections as vt220 connections.  The termcap is good, albeit  
> antiquated on AIX systems.
>
> I've used Smartterm and Putty for varying connections.
>
> If you need to connect serially, you can  take tty3 or 2 (depending  
> on the system's age) and configure it explicitly the way you want  
> to use it.
>
> However, for telnet/ssh, we've always used vt220.
>
> --Jerald
>
>
> On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Mark Wright wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I need to do IBM 3151 terminal emulation on Mac OS X or Linux.  (I
>> prefer Mac because I carry that with me everyday anyway.  I have an
>> old 300 mhz laptop running Ubuntu that I can use if I can't use the
>> Mac.)
>>
>> I have used the Demo for Powerterm.  It works fine but sells for
>> $150!!!!
>>
>> There is a winblows program called Net term that a coworker uses but
>> it only comes in one flavor.
>>
>> I was googling for info on Kermit.  I have used it to do many tricks
>> in the past but I cannot find any info on if it can emulate the IBM
>> 3151.
>>
>> I have Zterm but it seems to only do VT100.  3151 is a much more
>> sophisticated term type.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
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