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Appendix C. Host Attachment

Host Attachment

The following paragraphs provide information that will help you plan your

attachment of this printer to your system. Refer to Table 13 for special system

requirements.

This printer attaches to the following host devices and workstations:

v iSeries Host Systems (formerly AS/400) — Parallel Port and Twinax Interface

v zSeries Host Systems (formerly VM, MVS, VSE) — Coax Interface

v 3174 Controller — Asynchronous Emulation Adapter

v IBM Personal Computer Systems-ASCII Serial or Parallel port

v pSeries (formerly RS/6000) — ASCII Serial or Parallel port

v Non-IBM systems that support ASCII attachments through the following

interfaces: EIA-232-E Serial, EIA-422-B Serial, PC Parallel, Dataproducts Parallel,

and IEEE 1284 Parallel

v Ethernet and Token Ring LANs via the Network Print Server features

v Ethernet LANs via the 6500–v Ethernet feature

Note:

When a coax/twinax feature is installed, it attaches to host devices and

workstations that support coax/twinax.

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