RE: IBM 5363 - System/36 - Connecting to a PC?

iSeries Processor usage lights don't count? (grin)


-----Original Message-----
From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 10:06 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: IBM 5363 - System/36 - Connecting to a PC?


If there's anything that the PC guys have over us AS/400 (excuse me--
iSeries) types, is indicator lights.  Our PC Servers have lights for
each disk, and it's really impressive to watch a bank of lights
merrily flickering as the PCs think.

WHY DON'T AS/400s HAVE INDICATORS?  Yes, I know that the disks have
indicator lights, but they're buried under the covers.  I WANNA SEE
BLINKING LIGHTS!    (:

It's not a -real- computer unless it has SeaView style lights!
Remember the huge panel (4' x 8' at least!) for the front of the
'computer--'  lights marching in waves across the panel, making
pretty patterns.  The original StarTrek had lights, but they looked
like they actually -did- something!

It's like the blinking colon on a digital clock-- the colon blinks so
you 'know that it's working.'

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com




>  Gosh I'd forgotten that.  Every morning you came in you pushed the
"Test
>Lamps" pushbutton.  If a lamp was out you phoned IBM and a service
engineer
>parachuted into the parking lot.  Its making me all misty here,..  :')
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