Connecting a Thinkpad to the AS/400

[Bob Cozzi <BobCozzi@xxxxxxx>]

So, I'm giving up on trying to successfully connect my IBM Aptiva to the 
AS/400 using an IBM 5250 PCI card and Client Access/400 for Windows 95/NT 
version 3.1.2.

I'm going to connect using my ThinkPad, and hope that works.

So my question is (Neal are you there?) what can I use to connect to the 
AS/400? I only have a twinax adapter on the AS/400. I want have it work. (I 
know that's a big request for Client Access, but what else is there.)  I 
have to do emulation and file transfer (upload and download). That's it.

Should I get a 5250 PCMCIA card, if so who's?

Or, do I need to get an Ethernet adapter on my AS/400 and a 3COM card in my 
ThinkPad?

Which one will work more often? And/or is there another option?


Bob Cozzi
P.S.  Client Access does not download data to the PC the same way (using 
the same translation tables) as PC Support did. PC Support, in my opinion, 
did it correctly, CA/400 does it incorrectly. Specifically, if I do a 
STRCPYSCN to a database file, then I download that file to the PC using 
Client Access, the transfer generates errors. In addition, the data is NOT 
the same as it was with the exact same file, downloaded with the good old 
PC Support  RTOPC.EXE program. 
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