AS/400s in the Champaign area

From: Russ Blakeman <rhb57_at_vol.com>
Date: Mon Apr 22 17:14:21 2002

Remote dial-in access via an external modem should also be available besides
terminals (twinax and 5250 emulators) as well as ethernet, TR, etc - all in
the adapters added to it.

As pointed out before - an AS/400 of any age/type needs to have the twinax
blocks with it or it's a pain to get a master VDT terminal added to it.

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Christopher Smith
=> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:00 AM
=> To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
=> Subject: RE: AS/400s in the Champaign area
=>
=>
=> > -----Original Message-----
=> > From: Paul Thompson [mailto:thompson_at_mail.athenet.net]
=>
=> > CISC 9404 and 9402's that I have seen typically have crappy 150MB oem
=> > Tandberg QIC tape drives. Supposedly they are very finicky with their
=> > SCSI-I. I never bothered to do much with mine.
=>
=> > The disk drives (if not too small to be useful) can be
=> > reformatted to 512
=> > byte sectors and used elsewhere. I am using an IBM 0661 now from an
=> > AS/400 in a Netbsd DECstation 5000/260 as a second drive.
=>
=> As I said, this thing has two EMC RAID boxes in it. The drives in there
=> are 80-pin SCA type SCSI disks. It also seems to have a tape library of
=> unknown pedigree.
=>
=> It's also worth mentioning that I talked to a friend who used to work for
=> this company that had the AS/400, and he had this to say:
=>
=> -----
=> oh, what can I tell you about it? Not much, like I said, i
=> never monkeyed
=> with it. It was a monstrous huge thing, a good 15 years old, I
=> think. There was twinax wire running throughout the building, from when
=> the staff had to access it via dumb terminals. Later they stuck
=> a NIC on
=> it somehow, and got TCP/IP running on it, I think, because the
=> staff had a
=> telnet-like client for hooking up to it.
=> -----
=>
=> Chris
=>
=>
=> Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
=> Amdocs - Champaign, IL
=>
=> /usr/bin/perl -e '
=> print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
=> '
=>
=>
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 17:14:21 BST