Tue, 26 Jun 90 15:43:27 O
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I am sorry to inform you that my second 3279 terminal died today - around
4 months after its brother, which died sometime in february of this
year). Both terminals were around 8 years old and were obtained free of
charge from their previous owner; they were, of course, unsupported, and
as you know 3279's generate a lot of heat and do not like to be subjected
to excessive heat themselves. These 2 3279's were the only terminals
hooked to SEARN.
Anyway, the bottom line is that I no longer have decent access to SEARN;
I am typing this note from a *painful* tn3270 session on a *slow* ASCII
terminal. I had pointed out this risk to my management several months ago
and they had immediately agreed to purchase a new terminal for me,
however because of a small "glitch" with the IBM bean-counting service
(it would be long to explain), we have not been able to place the order
yet. Given that our IBM rep is in vacations, as well as most of our and
their administrative service, and given that IBM generally considers 2
months to be a perfectly reasonable delivery delay for new terminals, the
situation is very unlikely to improve within the next 1-3 months. I
regret to say that with this quality of access to SEARN, I am very
unlikely to do anything but read and answer mail (and this is already
going to take me at least 3 times as much as it used to).
Trevlig sommar, Eric
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