On Sept 5th I wrote the following:
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 I want to retire the old terminal, and connect the M.P.E. console to a Terminal Emulator using a COM port on a NT workstation. In fact I have done this, but it hangs sometimes, and the only way to get the console back is to power cycle the HP-3000, and restart the terminal emulator.  Has anyone on the list done this before, or have any pointers to do this the right way? 
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This list is great, I always get the full spectrum of opinions, and suggestions. When I asked about console emulation (above) , Secure Web Console was mentioned in almost all replies. The reason I asked about console emulation was because when I used Reflections, or Minisoft, or QCTERM, the console would sometimes hang, so I was thinking that maybe some serial communications settings of some kind was not set correctly, and maybe someone on the list would say,  "make sure your parity and stop bits are set to...., and disable the ......".  But most everyone mentioned Secure Web Console, so I thought maybe HP does some weird things with serial console I/O, and getting a SWC is the proper solution because it no doubt has all these serial communication problems workout. After all it is an HP product, designed to do exactly what I want, makes more sense. So, I purchased a Secure Web Console to replace the old HP700 terminal. Serial communications has always been a pain, so many variables to consider, now with the SWC we have Networked Serial Communications. My new SWC hangs just like the other terminal emulators, so I am back to the old HP700 terminal, it's simple and reliable. If anyone knows why my SWC is so flaky, I'd really appreciate the info.

Thanks for listining ;-)





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