Re: PC connection via twinax ?

Synapse only charges $89 for their IP Client Display that has over 20 years
of 5250 in it (they were the brains behind SSI, Emerald, and Andrew before
and suppliers of most of the first 5250 APPC clients:  NetSoft, Rally!, ).
It's not much considering the quality of the product, the free tech support,
and the free on-line updates.  It only uses 5MB of hard disk, doesn't muck
with the registry, and runs on all flavors of Windows.

Synapse also has a PC Anywhere compatible twinax card (ISA only) WinTwin
that can be used for console.

In my experience as a third party vendor of 5250 solutions for 20 years I
would say that most iSeries customers don't even know if they paid for CAE
or not.  It is craftily buried in the laundry list of so-called "must haves"
by IBM and BP's.  Customers are told they need OpsNav or other CAE freebies
and then are sold seats of CAE for $275 each when better and cheaper
alternatives exist on the market.  The minimum install of display, printer,
and file transfer (the billable part of CAE) is 32MB of disk and the install
wizard changes the registry, adds files to Windows/system, and further
launches Windows NEP's that eat system resources even when you aren't doing
anything.  IBM has completely outdone Microsoft (IE vs Netscape battle) in
embedding CAE into their invoices.

IMO,

Jerry

Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Windows, Linux,
Sun, and AS/400
Representing Synapse, CLI, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, 3Com and Others .....
http://www.trilosoft.com - (415) 457-3431 - (415) 258-1658fax -
jdraper@trilosoft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:34 AM
Subject: RE: PC connection via twinax ?


> I must say that I too must join the band of CA/400 malcontents.  I have
> tried and used several other products over the years.  My favourite was
IBM
> PC Comms, rock steady, simple to use and quite similar to CA, so a very
> short learning curve.  My main complaints with CA are - the client is too
> big and complex for simple 5250 eml, when that is primarilty all I need -
I
> use FTP for file-transfer, and the LicPgm for the AS/400 is way too
> expensive for simple 5250 eml.  IBM should provide a FREE pc 5250 eml,
with
> no bells and whistles;  strip out ops nav, data transfer, ODBC and all the
> trimmings - those that want or need it, ok, let them buy it, but I should
> not have to rely on freeware to sign on to my AS/400s, or be forced to
spend
> megabucks on CA.
>
> Jeff Bull