RE: Retail Terminal with NO Windows

I'd hate to think about how many miles of twinax I've probably pulled.

UTP, baluns, patch panels..... bad memories. Put in the first ever PC network at a previous employer - Token ring - we already had 3 System/38's using it. Ran the PC network over unused phone wire with baluns. Yuck.

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:44:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows
From: charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Actually I never ran into issue with twinax...

But then again, I never used it without star running it over UTP using a
baluns and a "power panel" from Black Box Corp.

In fact, I've still got some twinax terminals/printers in the
warehouse...been there since 1996. Those are going to have to be replaced
we we move off our Power5 box... :(

Charles


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:25 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Only for connectivity to speakers!
So inflexible, fraught with errors and unreliable!


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From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/13/2014 02:12 PM
Subject: Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Bring back Twinax!



On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

That's going to be a LOT of very LONG cables running to a really big USB
hub wherever the IBM box resides.

Or, a whole lotta IBM I boxes at the checkout lanes. Actually, I like
that idea <grin>.

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:40:35 -0600
Subject: Re: Retail Terminal with NO Windows
From: nandelin@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

And what Larry's saying, I believe, is that in your case, you have
i/OS, Android, Mac, Linux, and Windows as attack vectors.

Okay, so you're suggesting connecting the magnetic stripe reader

directly

to an IBM i Power Server? Can't trust any OS on the front-end? What

sort

of

UI requirements might a POS terminal support?

Nathan.
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