It can via the gateway software. I see several and it appears that many (if not all) require specialized hardware for the interconnection. A search for (vms sna gateway) will point you to the SPD's. -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 08:34 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Next retro comms project? Can VMS talk SNA? If so, I'm in :) Sampsa On 21 Oct 2009, at 13:31, Fred wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote: Where should we go from here? Setting up our own virtual X.25 PSDN tunnelled over IP maybe? Something crazy with SNA? SNA! SNA! :) I could set up Hercules here running MVS 3.8J ... ;) I'm sure the folks have been able to get SNA to work within the emulator. I set up Hercules and MVS once, but other than a novelty, I really didn't do much with it, because most of my associates wouldn't know a mainframe if it ran them over. I think it would be interesting to get something quasi-public (on HECmet) going. Fred ---- Lets call it for what it is - "legacy" is a term that people use in a polite but derogatory manner to imply that the future direction they prefer is not that which they view as the current direction.