Re: Console(ation) sought !

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, Jon, then just go buy a el cheapo 5250 device, slap it in port 0,
addr 0 and go count some sheep...:)  You can find thoses puppies floating
around almost anywhere...  If you want something that's really NICE, take
a look at the Decision Data 486 line...multi sessions and local printer
support...

Don in DC

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

> Since my poor old (new actually) model 170 still does not have a consistently
> working console I'm looking at alternatives.  I there a simple (read cheap)
> hardware solution open to me that will give me a nice twinax console so that I
> can sleep at night.  We are currently using the "old-style" serial console
> support but every so often it dies (for reasons that I won't bore you with).  
>So
> far we've been lucky and have still had our TCP/IP network running at the time
> we needed the console.  Because of this we have been able to reset the console
> and all has been well.  My fear is that one day the network will die and the
> console will not come back to life by itself and then I've got a large black
> veggie on my hands.
> 
> 
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