RE: System Terminal -- MIDRANGE-L

Art,
Good luck selling it.  Maybe I'm wrong about the Model 500, but we tried to
sell a Model 300 with 16 Gig and didn't even get a reply from the used
AS/400 vendors.  IBM was willing to give us $1600 as part of an equipment
replacement deal.  In our situation, we upgraded to a Model 720 and moved
our operating system to the new box which meant that legally we had to
remove the OS from the Model 300.  Try to sell one without an OS!  I wish
you better luck than we had.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Art Baker
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:46 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: System Terminal


Found the right cable to connect the ethernet to twinax (at least borrowed
it from another company). Sorry about the confusion on cables, I was trying
to discribe a missing cable but wasn't sure what it looked like.
        So to sum this up, where can I sell an AS400? The lease is up so you
be buying it outright. It's a Model 500, 20 gig hard drive, V3R7. It is
around 3 or 4 years old. What would this be worth?
Art

-----Original Message-----
From: mandy.shaw@uk.catalyst-solutions.com
[mailto:mandy.shaw@uk.catalyst-solutions.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 12:14 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: System Terminal


This doesn't sound good to me ... The first question is, did the box have a
twinax or async console? I assume from the way you describe things that it
had the latter. You need the 'plate' thing with 2 connectors sticking up
out of it (I never know how to describe them either) really, plus the
special cable for the async console which plugs into a specific port of the
plate (can't remember which of the two ports). I suspect you need to find
some friendly local site who'll lend you these bits, get a console going
for a little while, just enough to change the box startup program to start
TCP/IP automatically, assuming it's not doing so at present  (also, if I
were you, I'd configure an SNA connection to the box from one of your
others, if you have any other AS/400s, just in case TCP/IP doesn't start
properly - then if all else fails you can get in using passthru). I reckon
you will need the async console program which is shipped as one of the
components of Client Access.
I don't suppose the box still has an SNA connection configured from
somewhere else that you can track down and use without worrying about all
these cables?
Mandy






Art Baker <Art_Baker@baan.com> on 28/02/2001 05:35:11

Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

To:   "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
cc:    (bcc: Mandy Shaw/Pacific/UK)
Subject:  RE: System Terminal




I'm guessing this 'loon box' is what I've been calling the 'port
connector'.
I remember the ethernet cable, coming from the model 500, was plugged into
one of the terminals with one of those big connectors with the two pins in
it (this is one of those things easier to look at then explain). Then
another connector was used for the terminal. Anyway, the connector needed
for the ethernet cable to connect to the loon box (port connector) is gone,
it left with another company on a different machine. Any other way to do
this?
Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@attglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:07 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: System Terminal


At 08:00 PM 2/27/01 -0500, you wrote:

Assuming the workstation connects to a 6050 work station controller, you
need wha'ts known in Rochester as a 'loon box'.

Al
>Hello,
>         I was trying to access a 9406 model 500 but do not have the
orginal
>terminal that was connected to it (which is a long story about companies
>being brought-out and sold). There was an adapter that came out of card
slot
>#7 that had a ethernet cable that went to a port connector and then the
>terminal was plugged into the port connector.  I took another terminal off
a
>model 170 but there is nowhere to plug it in the back of the model 500,
and
>the port connector for the model 170 does not have an ethernet connection.
>So I then took a PC and a hub and connected it to the ethenet connector on
>the back of the model 500 (create a little network) but the PC does see
the
>AS400. Ping does not find the machine and it does not show up on the
network
>neighbor.
>         Any idea's on how to access this model 500 that has an ethernet
>adapter on the back? Is there a way to directly connect a dum terminal to
>this machine?
>Thanks,
>Art
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