Re: ThinkPad Connections

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

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Silly is as silly does.  (misquoting Forrest Gump's mom)

Maybe ethernet cards on a model 500 are cheap?  After all, don't they use
a card that is not supported on the iSeries?

Perle probably could get you set up with ethernet cards on the PC's hooked
up into one of their devices.  Probably cheaper to go with the lan card in
the 400 though.

You might want to consider wireless lan cards in these thinkpads.  Might
add a little extra cost purchasing a wireless access point for your
building (and or buildings).  But they're real popular here with our
laptop crowd.  Besides, we use the access points for those handheld
scanners with the 5250 screen on them.

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin




Pat Barber <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net>
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One of my older and not progressive clients just purchased
six new ThinkPads. He has a 9406-500 and will probably upgrade
sometime in the next century.

He has no ethernet adapter.

He wants to hook these ThinkPads(local attach) to the AS/400.

I haven't visited this particular situation in quite a while.

Any new hardware solutions out there for this sort of thing,
or am I stuck with gateways or local emulation cards ???

He has several extra comm. lines and I got to wondering about
using a remote controller(locally attached) to come in with
the ThinkPads.

Doesn't Perl have a version with ethernet adapters ??

Any ideas other than the ethernet adapter which is sort of
silly on a machine this old.
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