Did it at least support Ethernet by this point or did you get to learn all about Token Ring as well?
Luckily, yes. It had an Ethernet port and TCP/IP, so once it was up and running, getting it on the 'net wasn't too bad. The biggest challenge was actually getting the IT dept. to assign us an IP address, etc. Luckily I knew the IT guy pretty well from doing work-study with him earlier, so it wasn't too bad.
On the other hand, while you could telnet to the thing, you couldn't really use plain old command line telnet, which usually assumes something like a VT100 or VT200 terminal. AS/400's usually want 5250 terminal emulation, not VT100/220. So I had to find a 5250 terminal emulator to use to connect to the system and actually work with it.
A bigger issue can be with trying to send each of the 24 function keys when a VT102 didn't have any.
Perhaps a different person writing about a different system each month.
Thanks. ;-)