What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2062
6-23-68 plus 1 was the unbundling announcement ... and start of charging for application software. kernel-system software was still "free" under the theory that it was...
Jack Peachicken
Freaking morons 8-)
No one in tech support understands serial comm (async or non-async) any more. They don't know how to use a breakout box or make a null-modem cable specific to the hardware being interfaced. Your only chance for success these days is to make everything look like a 9-pin PC serial port.
pechter-at-gmail-dot-com (Bill Pechter) writes: And that's DE-9, not DB-9, right? Nobody knows what the second letter stands for anymore, either. I feel your pain - I...
I have so much fun trying to get customers to interface 8 pin RJ45 terminal servers to 8 pin RJ45 Intel motherboard servers (com2 is not a 9 pin on these boxes).
They keep trying to stick in either Cat5 straight or Crossover when a custom cable is required.
Anyway, I had to fly all the way to Bolder,Co from New Jersey to use a breakout box to fix a bad RS232 cable at a major telco development site where they were testing a voicemail system we developed.
I made sure I terminated everything on that box with DB25's with the correct connector to mate up with their standard modem.
Seems they couldn't get the SMDI to turn the phone message indicator on.
This is a dumb RS232 ascii protocol.
The said our stuff coming out of the terminal server didn't work.
At this point we flew me and a director of the company out there to put a loopback on at various points in the extended RS232 cable (they had to reach their modem two rooms away. Guess what. Worked at our distribution panel and at the next cable. The tech had a ribbon cable extender in line... and the signal dropped out after that.
He said he ran a dvm along all the leads to check continuity but he did it on a flat bench and guess what -- the cable only failed when hanging with a 90 degree bend from their patch panel.
$3500 in flight costs and hotel and rental car for the unwillingness of the customer to swap out a cable.
BTW -- here's a case where troubleshooting the doggone thing would've been easy by the old swap method -- but the tech was sure his cable was 100 percent good.
I tried to get him to get a new cable before I had to fly out -- but no...
Ah, well...
cp67 shipped source code maintenance. the 6-23-68 plus 1 unbundling accouncement started charging-licensing application software ... however kernel software was still free (under the theory it was required for the hardware...
And in the job market I can't even begin to figure out what some of these guys do to get hired.
Bill
-- digital had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now! pechter-at-ureach.com
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