Re[2]: New Risc and Decision Data Terminals

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>     They also work well as boat anchors...... :)

Uh, the -real- boat anchor in the family was the model ??, the one with a
built-in controller.  Must have weighed at -least 75 pounds!  (:

I had to lug one up a flight of narrow stairs (and back down, eventually),
so I could have dial-in capability to work.  Plus the modem.

The keyboards were -marvelous- once you disconnected the CLICKer.

We had a location where the lead keypuncher refused to give hers up when we
moved to newer terminals.  We told her it wasn't under maintenance, but she
kept it anyway.  Kept going for a LONG time!

-- Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com









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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
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>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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