RE: Console(ation) sought !

["Martin, Booth" <BoothM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am curious: Could Jon slap an emulation card in his PC, or in an old 286
in the closet, set at 0,0, and run Rhumba, JerryDraper(can't remember his
product's name), or BOSaNova emulator for the console, even while the PC is
running Client Access over tcp/ip?

-----Original Message-----
From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 2:43 PM
To: boothm@goddard.edu
Cc: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Console(ation) sought !




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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