I'm a fan of the mainframe world, I've always played with a mainframe emulated by Hercules, yesterday I had the opportunity to buy a used as400, I got all the cables and etc. Now I need to know how to access the mainframe with terminal...
This is the inputs that the as400 have:
Congratulations !
That connector left of J11, is a serial port connector. Connecting to an AS/400 w/o a monitor is similar to connecting to a Cisco device using the same terminal emulator like Hercules.
A decent 10 minute video on the process is at youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qPHXFzWtZI
I would highly recommend a decent Null Modem/USB adapter, I use this $20 StarTech from Amazon and it's always served me well: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-USB-Serial-Adapter-Modem/dp/B008634VJY/
