🚀 go-pugleaf

  Well I might as well jump in here and say that the HP way sucks when
it comes to the [box on users desk] to hp3000 connection.

    I am in a University enviroment and we have thousands of users all over 
the state.   We let anyone connected to our machine to search the database.  
The 3000 contains the complete online catalog of all books in our University 
afiliated librarys in the state.  

What we have come to a conclusion to is DO NOT ASK THE USER TO CHANGE!
Don't ask them to change to HP emulating software.  Do not even try to 
give away any software to help them (we have seen other units try this aproch
for their oddball hardware).  It is far easer to change the system or 
dump a machine than to change them.  

It is realy unrelistic to change thousands of people who get connected with
just about every imaginable configuration of hardware and software.  We are
planning a brute force aproch to help our crippled 3000.  We plan on putting
the 3000 on a network seprate from the internet.  It will be connected to
a UNIX box which will be the box connected to the internet.  We are planning
to have the 3000 talk to the UNIX box via either the VT3k, (I do not know any-
thing about this product), or by using terminal servers to convert the TCP/IP
to RS232 and route this through the DTC's.   I have seen a simular setup on the
east coast.   

                 If you have a better suggestion I will at least read your
message.  Send replys to FNRJH@Aurora.Alaska.edu   

PS.  The rantings, ravings, and misspellings are my fault not that of my 
employer.   
               Robert J. Hale III
               University of Alaska Fairbanks
               IMPACT/Gnosis Dept.
               Room 510 Rasmuson Library.
               Fairbanks Alaska  99775
               (907) 474-5292 wk.
               (907) 474-6841 fax.