Re: green screens are sometimes better

I spent 3 months (off and on) trying to get our first system w/ Ops
console instead of a twinax console working. It was not mission critical
(luckily).  Turned out that the serial port on the laptop I was using
had a bad Receive Data line.  Once I tracked that down, it worked fine. 
But, I think a twinax console is really the only way to go.

-Bob Buchanan
 Save the whales, preserve the forest, free the mallocs.

> Charly Jones wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> 
> Shop floor isn't the only situation that green screen is
> the best solution...
> 
> I just spent the afternoon studying a manual that is over 150 pages
> long.  It is typical PC crap: Click here, pull this down,
> look for a folder that something else got installed into,  make
> sure you have all the patches, you may have to delete the old
> configuration in order to change some values, if you press "back"
> after you press "next" weird things will happen (it actually
> has a long passage on the recovery from this "problem" situation)...
> 
> I am willing to bet it would take someone at least a day
> to configure a console for the first time using these instructions.
> 
> "iSeries Operations Console Setup" SC41-5508-02 (for V5R1)
> 
> Here is the green screen equivalent:
> 
> 1)  connect both ends of the twinax cable
> 2)  on the e(logo)Server iSeries 400 i4 set autoconfigure "on"
> 3)  set the 5250 terminal to address 0
> 4)  power on the terminal and the system
> 
> Did I forget anything?
> 
> Call me old fashioned.  Call me a geezer.  I don't care.
> Anyone that thinks Ops Console is the way to go, I would
> sure like to hear from you.
> 
> Charly Jones
> Geezer in Gig Harbor
> 
> >From: "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@RPGIV.COM>
> >
> >Uh, point of order, Mr. Chairman:  For heads down keying, order
> entry, shop
> >floor...where they don't need all the extra apps running on the desk
> >top...and this also includes a lot of POS...  GREEN SCREENS ARE THE
> FASTEST
> >WAY TO DO IT.
> >
> >...I completely agree. This is the one area where character-mode apps
> are
> >king.
> 
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