Re: Just out of morbid curiosity: power consumption of an E4A

Does anyone ever pull that out other than to set the IP address for HMC or
Lan Console? I mean, once you have HMC or Lan Console set up than why not
use those to do any of those functions?

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 1:45 PM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Depends on which version of said LAN console!

On newer machines it works fine with ACS. Yes it has limitations, like
it can't power the machine ON. ;-)

Only the old machines where you connecticated a cable to what LOOKED
like a parallel port (DB25 connection) that turned out to be a
completely unsupported function for the chip behind that port. It had to
be disabled because no computer in the last decade or more even HAD a
parallel port and even less likely than that the chip in said port was
compatible.

- L

On 5/10/2023 1:19 PM, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

On 5/10/23 10:10 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

I'm also not particularly fond of that thing. Not only it looks and
feels cheap. I also fear that pulling it in and out "too often" might
destroy it. :-)

Yes. It wouldn't be such a problem if it weren't for the fact that some
years ago the virtual control panel on LAN Console stopped working and
then disappeared completely.

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