<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">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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