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  3. March 2009

RE: Green Screen (Dumb Terminal) Email Client for System i

Find me ANY computer architecture that CAN't be screwed up by shoving a
cable in wrong and bending a pin.... and I'll buy it.



Jim




Quality means doing the right thing when no one is looking
Henry Ford


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 20 March 2009 9:10
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Green Screen (Dumb Terminal) Email Client for System i

Twinax always works? Evidently you've not spent a lot of time upgrading

baluns, twinax repeaters, etc trying to find out what was going wrong.
Boss: They have all this equipment like repeaters and stuff to make it
work.
Me: Because there's a MARKET for it. It takes all that stuff to get it

to work.
Or calling the IBM repairman to replace a plethora of 3196 switches.
Or having one pin pushed in when you screwed in the cable.
Or ...


Rob Berendt

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