Re: New Risc and Decision Data Terminals -- MIDRANGE-L

That's GREAT !!

I remember one time a LONG time ago, a place I was at when the S/38 was knew, 
had
5251's (and they WERE great to sit stuff on - couldn't BELIEVE the grief we got
when they were replaced with 5291's...). A lady came and got me and said
something was wrong with her screen. It was the most BIZZARE (and cool) thing I
had ever seen ! The Signon Screen was going at a 45 degree angle, lower left to
upper right and WRAPPING around !
She had (over)watered a plant that was sitting on top of it and REMEMBER that
"seem" on top ? Ran down in that and PRESTO ! Tricky display. Amazing it didn't
fry the thing. We unplugged it and called IBM. They came out and dried it out 
and
it was fine...

Chuck

"BORING, David" wrote:

> A buddy of mine a few years back gutted a 5251-11 terminal that died. Then
> built a fish tank inside and had an IBM 5251-11 fish tank. Looked pretty
> cool! I forget how he got it set up to feed the fish etc., but it was
> definitely a conversation piece.
>
> David Boring
> Systems Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 99 11:03:38 -0600
> From: "Eric DeLong"<eric.delong@pmsi-services.com>
> Subject: Re[2]: New Risc and Decision Data Terminals
>
>      They also work well as boat anchors...... :)
>
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> Subject: Re: New Risc and Decision Data Terminals
> Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INET_WACO
> Date:    2/9/99 2:41 PM
>
> Lurton,
>
> >I don't think an old 5250 model 11 terminal will work on an AS/400.
>
> I have a client who still has some 5251-11 terminals they got with
> their S/34 in early '82.  They still work (unfortunately!) and have
> through all their upgrades of various S/36 and AS/400 models.  But
> they are still on a 9402-200 running V3R2, so I don't know for sure
> they would work with a RISC machine.
>
> They are down to one or two of their original four 5251-11's; the fans
> in the other ones got too noisy although I think the terminals were
> otherwise working OK.  The 5251's are now just kept as emergency
> spares.
>
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