RE: Happy Birthday !

Hey, OS/400 is like a fine wine, it improves with age !    :-)



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Paris [SMTP:paris@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 6:28 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Happy Birthday !
> 
> >>> Well, here it is, one day past the 10th anniversary of the AS/400
> announcement, half a million systems shipped,  and where are the
> marching bands, the TV ads, the billboards, the big AS/400 hot air
> balloons floating across the countryside, the 400 homing pigeons
> released from Times Square, the ANYTHING from IBM ?????
> 
> Well it's possible that getting approval through the bureaucracy for
> Rochester's first-ever on-site beer-bash birthday party took up all of
> their
> energy ......... but my suspicion would be that with the system
> already
> fighting an old fashioned/out dated image, they decided not to promote
> that
> image by celebrating too publicly.
> 
> Purely a personal opinion.
> 
> Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
> Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414
> 
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