RE: Twinax Consoles

Sure, you could use it in place of a system console - I did it on a
system which needed to have a fancy-looking console but they required
twinax.  If HMC had been out then, we'd just have gone that route, but
since it wasn't, I rounded-up a card, threw it in an old PC, and got a
19-inch flat panel - looked fantastic.  IBM black keyboard, IBM black
flat panel, IBM black mouse - all sitting on a sidecar of a
multi-million 870.  Very nice.

Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Administrator
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
Kingland Systems Corporation
email - justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 2:55 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Twinax Consoles

> From: Haase, Justin C.
> 
> How about just get a twinax PCI card for a PC so you're not depending
on
> 20-year-old terminals?  The interface cards tend to be pretty cheap,
and
> using a PC gives you much better selection for color and style (flat 
> panel - nice!), if your console is part of a "display piece"
datacenter.

Now THIS has potential... can you use it in place of a system console,
Justin?  'Cuz if you can, that one less tube and keyboard on my desktop;
that's be worth the price of the card!

Joe

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