Agile 5250 Ally

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The 5250 ALLY is a powerful, cost-effective, intelligent printer interface that enables an IBM AS/400 or S/3X midrange computer to print to an industry-standard, parallel-attached ASCII or EBCDIC printer. With the 5250 ALLY, distributed printers from Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, IBM/Lexmark and other manufacturers can be used in place of an IBM 3812, 4214, 5219, 5224, 5225 or 5256 printer.The ALLY also supports a parallel-attached alternate host. This feature allows the printer to be shared with a PC LAN, PC or even another protocol converter.

The 5250 ALLY, with a speed of up to 35 pages per minute, will keep up with the pace of your printer.Its 5219/3812 emulation supports IBM DisplayWrite 36 and Office/400, including multi-column justification, GFIDs with multiple fonts per page, superscripting, subscripting, bolding, overstriking, underlining, pitch control, page orientation and formatting.

Configuration is easy, through either the twinax host or an alternate host data stream. Plus, the unit's flash EEPROM-based firmware, user-programmable from a PC, facilitates new code upgrades and support for custom applications.

FEATURES

• Flexible Printing Connectivity
• Connects using any ASCII/EBCDIC parallel output device
• Emulates IBM 3812 (SCS mode), 4214, 5219, 5224, 5225 and 5256 printers
• Automatic printer sharing between 3X/400 host and an alternate host
• Translation tables changeable on line
• Flash EEPROM-based firmware, user-programmable from a PC
• 512 user programmable function strings dynamically allocated up to 20K total
• Programmable through twinax host or alternate host data stream
• Supports IBM DisplayWrite 36 and Office/400 including multi-column justification, multiple fonts per page, pitch control, page orientation, formatting, etc.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
HOST INTERFACE

• IBM AS/400 or System 34/36/38 Twinax input port (AWM 2498) with automatic terminating/cable-through intelligent T connector
• 1 twinax address (session/logical unit) with automatic address validation and conflict avoidance
• Full SCS/DCA FFT data stream support

PRINTER INTERFACE

• 1 DB-25 Centronics parallel output port
• ASCII or EBCDIC printer

ALTERNATE HOST INTERFACE

• 1 DB-25 parallel input port

PRINTER SHARING

• Printer sharing between twinax host and alternate host

PRINTER EMULATIONS

• IBM 3812 (SCS mode), 4214, 5219, 5224, 5225 and 5256 printers

PRINTERS SUPPORTED

• All parallel-attached ASCII or EBCDIC printers

THROUGHPUT

• In IBM emulation, supports up to 35 logical pages per minute at 100% print density (132 columns by 66 lines)
• In Xerox 275 emulation, supports up to 55 logical pages per minute

PROGRAMMABILITY

• Twinax host data stream
• Alternate host data stream
• Front panel

UPGRADEABILITY

• Operating software and configuration data on flash EEPROM, user-programmable from a PC

DIAGNOSTICS

• Power-on self test
• EBCDIC HEX dump
• Configuration parameter printout

TRANSPARENCY

• IBM 03h, 35h
• Xerox Metacode 35h
• i-data pseudo transparency (IBM emulation)
• MPI pseudo transparency (275 emulation)

USER PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION STRINGS

• 512 PFSs dynamically allocated up to 20K total

TRANSLATION

• Translation tables changeable on line

OTHER 5250 ALLY SPECIFICATIONS
POWER

• 5 VDC at 1 amp (110 VAC)
• 5 VDC at 1.5 amps (220 VAC)

WEIGHT

• 1.5 lbs.

SIZE

• 1.5 in. (h) x 8.6 in. (w) x 5.5 in. (d)

CERTIFICATIONS