Re: operations console via lan -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: operations console via lan
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:23:23 -0800
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I'm going to be following this one myself.

"LAN Console" has always struck me as a hookup mistake waiting to happen, and I'll probably never understand why IBM dumped something as robust and reliable as Twinax (or if they had to dump it, why they didn't just put keyboard, mouse, and VGA ports into the box itself).

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JHHL
Still using real terminals. Even though I DESIGNED my emulator of choice.

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