> > There is no clear "best" choice for a console emulator, although > attachmate,and IBM's eNet Personal Comm emulator seem to be the most widely > used with others like tn3270plus and Reflection (no longer available as this > name) seem to be able to work well also. > > The speed of the PC that you use is not a big factor so long as it's at > least a Pentium 3 or higher. It's more important to have a reliable network > card or built-in NIC interface on the motherboard as a reliable link to the > ICC. You can scrimp on most everything else in the PC. You might want to > also remove all of the games on the PC if it's a older/slower model, so that > the operators don't spend more time doing a lot of game playing. > > I normally would say something like if you can spend the bucks on the > mainframe you can afford the few hundred for a reliable PC, but I have come > to realize that data centers don't always work that way. >
We use HP thin clients with flash memory and no disk. They run XPembedded, and have no games. <g> And they are nice and small, they stand along side or even behind the thin screen display. I set them up in admin mode, and the ops just have to turn them on and they go right into the emulation. We use Ericom PowerTerm, because it is locally (Israel) produced and has good support for Hebrew. Ours are also on a dedicated 10.0 network, and I have a point in my office connected to the same switch, so that I am not totally dependant on a VTAM connection. Shimon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
