It was some old Memorex amber terminal. I don't recall the model. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK
Chuck: 3277? On 2018-11-19 13:32, Chuck Kreiter wrote: > First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps. > The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one > that did both cases, it worked fine. Beat my head on the desk for a > couple of days on that one. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK > > Nice. > > > > I once got on a plane to go to a customer site because they could NOT > get an SNMP common string accepted. As I had at least half suspected, > they were entering it in uppercase, despite multiple explicit attempts > to get them to enter it in lowercase. (Yes, I'd suggested WebEx or > equivalent; "Not > allowed".) > > > > Customer wasn't even abashed. > > > > Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix > mistakes that have cost untold billions. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
