Re: TCP/IP Terminals For AS/400

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Idea has a dumb tube that works over TCP/IP.  You might
want to check that out.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Bob Crothers wrote:

> Didn't I just read in today's Monday Morning Update that Bossanova now has a
> twinax controller that works over IP?  Then you could have terminals at the
> remote, but connectivity is via IP.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of bparis@sorrlac.com
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:50 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: TCP/IP Terminals For AS/400
>
> > May we ask WHY he isn't allowing CA?
>
> They would like a solution that is basically "PC" free to get away from
> those pesky support things/issues that always manage to occur with remote
> PC's...  something that is as reliable as a terminal.
>
> Now if a terminal can run CA and is not a PC... humm.....   (-:
>
> I know a basic terminal would be able to connect to our AS/400, but the
> keyboard mapping would have to be changed (right CTRL = enter, etc..) and I
> wonder if the function keys would work properly. Is there a terminal out
> there like that?
>
> > If you want to re-use the 486's, perhaps you might want to
> > explore setting
> > up a single disk LINUX system that automatically goes into
> > the open source,
> > free, TN5250 client that is being developed.
>
> As much as I like Linux, this would be out of the question at this point..
> )-:
>
> Bill
>
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