Re: ThinkPad Connections

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everybody...

I'm going to try to talk these guys into a ethernet adapter from
the used market.

I have several sources for used gear and the ethernet adapters
for the 500 aren't too bad(under $300).

The machine is still on maint., so that's another issue on who
is gonna do the install. IBM get $230 per hour with a two hour
minimum on this install. The $460 is gonna hurt when I propose
this little solution.






Pat Barber wrote:
>
> 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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