RE: Using modems to connect two iSeries

Pete,

It wouldn't surprise me if that cable was laying around your shop somewhere.
IBM's configurator is usually pretty good about raising a red flag if you
order a card and not a cable to go with it. If you guys have a box of "stuff
that came with the iSeries" somewhere, it might be worth taking a look.

-Marty

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date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:03:58 -0700
from: "Pete Helgren" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Using modems to connect two iSeries

So that is a specialized cable then?  The connector looks like very
different from anything else (like a very small centronics port) and it sits
to the right of the RJ45 phone line connector.  So there is a cable I buy
for this and I can connect a "regular" external modem to it and it will do
SDLC?

If so, cool!

It's probably a $500 cable...knowing IBM's over-engineering on
cables....probably weighs 25lbs and is 50 feet long!

Pete