Re: Console disconnect question

Twinax can be a bit flaky compared to hmc and that genre.  Not quite as 
reliable.  Follow these steps:
Sign off the twinax session.  Make sure you use Alt-Jump or whatever it is 
to make sure that other sessions aren't in use on the same terminal.
On the back of the console, there should be a T connector, or some such 
animal.  If there are two pieces of twinax, one coming in, and one coming 
out.  You will have to track down the rest of the line and make sure the 
rest of the devices are all signed off.  PRTDEVADR may help.  To reconnect 
the rest of the devices you'll have to leave the T connector in there or 
get a twinax splice.
If there is only one line coming in, and instead of twinax it looks like a 
phone wire connected to something called a balun, then you may wish to 
disconnect the phone wire going to the balun from the source.  And I don't 
mean from a phone jack close to the terminal.  I mean from the 'twinax 
booster', distribution panel, or whatever else you are using.
Be careful reconnecting twinax that you don't accidentally push the pins 
back into the receptacle.  Seen that happen a lot of times.
Oh, and if you have an old IBM 3196 terminal I would recommend unplugging 
it and not using the on/off switch.  They're made of cheap plastic and 
will often break.  Went through at least 16 of those that way.

Nope, don't miss twinax at all.

Rob Berendt