270x is a generic name for a family of IBM non-programmable communications controllers used with System/360 and System/370 computers. The family consisted...
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developed the IBM 270x series of communication controllers, modems, and other IBM products. In 1963, IBM La Gaude established a satellite link to IBM Endicott...
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Front-end processor (redirect from Front-end processor (IBM))
necessarily as flexible. Early communications controllers such as the IBM 270x series were hard wired, but later units were programmable devices. Front-end...
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Controller IBM 2821 Control Unit, used to attach card readers, punches and line printers to IBM System/360 and IBM System/370 computers IBM 270x and IBM 37xx...
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of the family ran one of three IBM-supplied programs. Emulation Program (EP) mimicked the operation of the older IBM 270x non-programmable controllers....
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telecommunications control units. Terminal access controller IBM 270x IBM 3705 Communications Controller IBM 3720 IBM 3745 System analysis handbook. Fort Benjamin Harrison...
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Conversational Monitor System (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
most IBM mainframes were not equipped for character-at-a-time interrupts. Dumb terminal support relied on terminal control units such as the IBM 270x (see...
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CP-67 (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
units, 7.5 MB each, 22.5 MB total IBM 2400 magnetic tape data storage unit IBM 270x Transmission Control unit Disks to be used by CP have to be formatted by...
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communication adapter such as a 270x communications controller. There are numerous data entry devices that can be attached: The IBM 2791 Area Station is a tabletop...
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The IBM 3705 Communications Controller is a simple computer which attaches to an IBM System/360 or System/370. Its purpose is to connect communication...
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Basic telecommunications access method (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
remote terminals, usually connected through a front end processor such as a 270x communications controller, although support for local channel-attached 3270...
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managed by software written in-house. Most of the software resides on an IBM mainframe computer. This mainframe is not just responsible for NMUK; it controls...
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