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

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I always did my own soldering and supervised the cable runs. I never messed
with baluns because when I was working in twin-ax shops they were not
"mature" products.

Everything was daisy chained together. I had enough bad experiences with
3196's at COMMON that I never owned any.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:10 PM
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