<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div>I had the privilege to work with some people at bell-northern- research (BNR/Northern Electric/ Nortel) back in the late 80’s / early 90’s<div><br><div>Many were retiring at 60 / 65… so the stories they had of how they built phone switches, computing networks, and developed with protel (precursor to C / pascal) were amazing to hear…</div><div><br></div><div>370’s I think were still in use when I started there… used x-edit and cocos-mail on the vm/Cms </div><div>We were ‘cutting edge’!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Francisco <div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">fxdoming@gmail.com</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 5, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Jon Thiele <jthiele@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">First it was Honeywell Level 6 ===> System/370 ===> System/36 ===> AS/400 ===> z/OS or whatever it's called now...</div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</tbody></table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:32 PM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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!</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:29 PM Jason Eckert <<a href="mailto:jason.eckert@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.eckert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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). </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:56 PM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53H0pO2FD4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53H0pO2FD4</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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