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Host System Attachment Choices

Infoprint 3000 printers can attach to the following processing systems with the indicated attachment choices, which are marked with X:

Table 5. Host Processing Systems and Attachment Choices
Host System
S/370 Parallel
Channel
ESCON
Channel
Token Ring
or Ethernet
TCP/IP LAN
FDDI
TCP/IP
LAN
IBM ES/3090
(Note 1)
(Note 3)
 X X
IBM ES/9000
 X X
S/390 Multi-
prise 2000,
G3 Enterprise,
Parallel
Enterprise
Server
 X X
IBM
ES/9370/9371
(Note 2)
PS/2
 X
AS/400
 X
RS/6000
System/6000
 X X
Notes:
  1. Attaches to Models 180J and above, except for Model 250, and to 9000T.
  2. A High-Speed Printer Adapter is required when connecting to the Micro Channel on the ES/9371.
  3. For ESCON, only model 3090J is supported.

All printers have two ports.

You can intermix these attachments in any combination of two, except that you cannot have two TCP/IP attachments.

See Preparing the Processing Environment for more information about system and channel-attachment requirements.