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  • Subject: RE: PC Crash when running CA/400
  • From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:26:00 -0800

I like my PC.  (Most of the time)  What I miss is the keyboard that came
with the terminals.  You can't buy a keyboard that feels like that.  IBM
used to make keyboards with the same feel for the PS/2s, but the ones in the
stores now feel like the springs have been replaced with whipped cream.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerwin Crawford [mailto:crawfork@toastmaster.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 1:37 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: PC Crash when running CA/400
> 
> 
> I fought off my first PC for many years, I was almost the 
> last one in that
> company to have one.  It almost brought tears to my eyes when 
> that "Dumb
> Terminal" got taken away.  Progress...
> 
> Kerwin S. Crawford
> Toastmaster Inc.
> System Analyst
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schenck, Don <Don.Schenck@WL.com>
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 2:29 PM
> Subject: RE: PC Crash when running CA/400
> 
> 
> >Oh how I WISH I had a time machine. I would have used it in 
> 1993 to move
> >forward to today and return with the email, below. I would 
> have shown it to
> >all the people that were screaming for an _Open System_...
> >
> ><including me>
> >
> >Peace,
> >
> >-- Don
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Kerwin Crawford [mailto:crawfork@toastmaster.com]
> >Sent: January 07, 2000 2:45 PM
> >To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >Subject: PC Crash when running CA/400
> >
> >
> >We have been experiencing a problem with some PC's that are 
> running CA/400
> >(latest Service Pack) rebooting.  The screen will change to 
> what looks like
> >the tool bar extremely large (takes full screen to display) 
> then in  less
> >than a second it will start the reboot of the PC.  We have 
> had it happen to
> >people running only CA at the time of the reboot and to 
> people that were
> >running a full array of things.
> >
> >No good clues at this time but thought some of you might 
> have had the same
> >and know of a fix.  My personal solution is to get the beloved "Dumb
> >Terminals" back (ooh the good old days, no PC's to worry about).
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Kerwin S. Crawford
> >Toastmaster Inc.
> >System Analyst
> >
> >
> 
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