Re: Console(ation) sought !

[Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:
> 
> Hopefully one of you hardware gurus can advise this software weenie on this.
> 
> Since my poor old (new actually) model 170 still does not have a consistently
> working console I'm looking at alternatives.  I there a simple (read cheap)
> hardware solution open to me that will give me a nice twinax console so that I
> can sleep at night.  We are currently using the "old-style" serial console
> support but every so often it dies (for reasons that I won't bore you with).  
>So
> far we've been lucky and have still had our TCP/IP network running at the time
> we needed the console.  Because of this we have been able to reset the console
> and all has been well.  My fear is that one day the network will die and the
> console will not come back to life by itself and then I've got a large black
> veggie on my hands.

I would get a 3489 and a nice SVGA(21") monitor(just kidding about
monitor)

This would give you several sessions and printer support and it very
rarely
fails. This assumes you got a twinax port.

Under $1,000 new.   Under 600 used.
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