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

[Jon Thiele]

First it was Honeywell Level 6 ===> System/370 ===> System/36 ===>  AS/400
===> z/OS or whatever it's called now...

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On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:32 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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