Re: Sys/36 Migration Software

["End of the Trail" <endofthetrail@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Wasn't there also a direct-connect cable you could use?
Yes there was.  It was a switch box of sorts... Null modem of sorts...  You
connect a twinax to each machine and the box.  You could transfer data
though or sign on to either machine.

>The cables were used once per conversion, but gosh
> someone must have one kicking around?
Yea, I still have one.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Booth Martin <Booth@MartinVT.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: Sys/36 Migration Software


>
>  Wasn't there also a direct-connect cable you could use?  It was a special
> purpose cable just for the situation where the 8" diskettes won't work on
> the new machines.  The cables were used once per conversion, but gosh
> someone must have one kicking around?
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Date: Monday, December 02, 2002 07:54:42 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Sys/36 Migration Software
>
> At 13:15 12/02/2002, Art Tostaine wrote:
> >Does anybody have this software that I can borrow/buy/use? It prepares a
> >save on the 36 to be
> >imported into the AS/400.
>
> Wow, that's almost in the earlier life category. If I misremember
> correctly, you can just do a savelibr or fromlibr on the S/36, and use the
> rsts36libm command (part of the S36EE migration utilities - free) on the
> AS400 to restore. There was a migration utility on the S36 side that
packed
> everything up nice and neat, but if you can't find it, it's not a very big
> deal, as long as you have all the source, and you're not bringing over
> assembler or wsu, neither of which is supported in the 36E.
>
>
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@ameritech.net
> http://www.pbhall.us/
>
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