Remote dial-in access via an external modem should also be available besides terminals (twinax and 5250 emulators) as well as ethernet, TR, etc - all in the adapters added to it. As pointed out before - an AS/400 of any age/type needs to have the twinax blocks with it or it's a pain to get a master VDT terminal added to it. => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Christopher Smith => Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:00 AM => To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' => Subject: RE: AS/400s in the Champaign area => => => > -----Original Message----- => > From: Paul Thompson [mailto:thompson@mail.athenet.net] => => > CISC 9404 and 9402's that I have seen typically have crappy 150MB oem => > Tandberg QIC tape drives. Supposedly they are very finicky with their => > SCSI-I. I never bothered to do much with mine. => => > The disk drives (if not too small to be useful) can be => > reformatted to 512 => > byte sectors and used elsewhere. I am using an IBM 0661 now from an => > AS/400 in a Netbsd DECstation 5000/260 as a second drive. => => As I said, this thing has two EMC RAID boxes in it. The drives in there => are 80-pin SCA type SCSI disks. It also seems to have a tape library of => unknown pedigree. => => It's also worth mentioning that I talked to a friend who used to work for => this company that had the AS/400, and he had this to say: => => ----- => oh, what can I tell you about it? Not much, like I said, i => never monkeyed => with it. It was a monstrous huge thing, a good 15 years old, I => think. There was twinax wire running throughout the building, from when => the staff had to access it via dumb terminals. Later they stuck => a NIC on => it somehow, and got TCP/IP running on it, I think, because the => staff had a => telnet-like client for hooking up to it. => ----- => => Chris => => => Christopher Smith, Perl Developer => Amdocs - Champaign, IL => => /usr/bin/perl -e ' => print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); => ' => =>