From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

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"Bob.Ackley". wrote:
>Dunno why IBM still uses an external 2400 baud modem with the service
>processor, there are a couple of empty adapter slots in it.

Probablt been there since the beginning. If all it has to do is report
problems, 2400 baud is all it needs. AS/400 customers usually upgraded in
order to download patches over the link.

> ...  It's in the basement.

"All" you need to do is upgrade your aircon and power service to run it?

>As of about 2 years ago the service processors on IBM's big iron still ran
>OS/2.

No reason why not - there are drivers for current hardware and IBM owns the code.

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