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Heck they phased out punch cards at my university the summer after I left. I actually used one many years ago as programmer and wrote all the code and tested on a dumb screen.

In the good old days, every descent system admin had a dumb screen and cables and were "good to go" at a moments notice but things have changed.ĭumb terminals are increasingly rare - we have two in my computer room but then I have been around a long time and refuse to junk them. To do this you need to attach what I call a dumb terminal to boot the box, set some low level configuration and then boot off the DVD or network.

This way you are using the full power of the Power based machines to run LPARs / Virtual Machines and push higher utilisation and extra flexibility.īut some what to ignore those benefits and just run the whole machine as a stand alone box running one Linux.

I would recommend anyone trying a Power System to run it with a Hardware Management Console (HMC).