Re: Bill Gates Wins, AS/400 Users Loose

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BOY wasn't that the good ole days ?

We had a plant in St. Louis (us in Indianapolis) that needed to add additional 
devices and there 5394 was maxed out. We were
looking at adding a 2nd drop for an additional 5394 and I ran across something 
from Black Box called an RS-232 line sharer.
Couldn't find ANYONE back there that was using one but LUCKILY I was headed to 
Common.

I ran into a guy from the IBM Communications lab in Rochester and told him what 
I was looking at. He said there should be NO
problem with this working and that they were using all kinds of stuff like that.

We ended up saving a TON of money on monthly leased line charges...



Rob Berendt wrote:

> I remember some good discussions also.  When I started here we had eleven 
>S/36's.  Not one of them was connected
> to the other.  Some were in the same room.  If system x wanted a terminal in 
>city z and city z already had a S/36 they put
> a 5294 controller on top of system z and had it attached to system x.  At 
>Cuds I layed out our whole network on a napkin
> with a lady from IBM.  It was a slow gradual shift getting everything 
>connected at a real cheap price.  Now we have 18
> AS/400's, no S/36's, T1 lines, frame relays, and routers up the wazoo.
>
> Glenn-Ericson@att.net on 09/19/98 08:05:02 AM
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> Thought the spelling  changed few   sessions  back to CUD$
> and so did  the  size of the group in the evenings. I use to have a lot of
> good  discussions there before the  crowds went away.
>
> At 01:56 PM 9/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >What, you've never been to CUDS?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >ddunfie@net-link.net on 09/18/98 01:41:53 PM
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> >Bill Gates may win but I have rarely met a LOOSE AS/400 user.
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