[kwlug-disc] what the rest of us were doing..

[CrankyOldBugger]

Those early AS/400's were the best computers ever built..  rock solid; they
run forever.  At least, they run until a certain unnamed operator
accidentally tripped over the power cord one day...  They drop pretty fast
then!


On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:29 PM Jason Eckert <jason.eckert at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was such a reliable platform. The last day of my co-op at Microsoft
> (early 90s) there was a talk in the amphitheatre, and I remember Bill Gates
> telling everyone that IBM was in financial trouble and they were
> considering buying just the AS/400 division (at the time, Microsoft had a
> LOT of AS/400 systems running pretty much all the company operations).
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:56 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I enjoyed hearing some of the older guys in this group go on about
>> systems and programs they used back in the day.. For the rest of us old
>> farts, we ran IBM.  Here's a fun video of the AS/400 plant in Rochester (I
>> used to work on System/38 and AS/400 beasties)
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53H0pO2FD4
>>
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