Bill Richman <bill at timeguy.com> wrote: I should think there's no law prohibiting its use as a space heater?! In fact there shouldn't be many illegitimate activities involving the _hardware_, unless one tips it over onto people, uses it to crushes foreign property or pollutes the environment with it ;-). Kidding aside...as just recently explained, the problem is the OS for it. Before I go repeating stuff that I only picked up here on the list, I suggest looking for the knowledge which has already been exchanged here; two starting points out of a lot more: http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2003-December/022896.html http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2003-January/013268.html As an aside, "9040" isn't an AS/400 designation I could easily find...any chance you mixed up the symbols, "9404" looks a lot more like it? That last sentence essentially _is_ three arguments not to scrap it, at least to me... I've never touched an AS/400 before, but should like to. http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2002-December/006151.html is yet another thread worth having a look. However it only deals with twinax terminals; I've never heard of somebody accessing one via serial console. So long, yours sincerely -- Arno Kletzander Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen www.iser.uni-erlangen.de Highspeed-Freiheit. Bei GMX superg?nstig, z.B. GMX DSL_Cityflat, DSL-Flatrate f?r nur 4,99 Euro/Monat* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl