Re: AS/400 History

Gee Pat, I hadn't even reached puberty in 1971, and by no means and I the
youngest guy on the listserv. :)
Carl

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barber <MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: AS/400 History


|Steven Sharpe wrote:
|>
|> I am having a debate over AS/400 history and I'm hoping someone on the
List
|> can settle it.  What was the order of computer platforms introduced by
IBM -
|> (System 36, System 38, AS/400)?
|>
|> I say the order was 36, 38, 400.  My friend says it was 38, 36, 400.
Could
|> someone help me settle this?
|>
|
|Sorry about this, but your friend is right: If my feeble mind recalls
|correctly(you other "oldies" jump in) it was: The dates are all a
|blur.....
|
|360
|S/3
|S/32
|S/38
|S/34
|S/36
|AS/400
|
|To give this list some perspective, I started to work on a 360/30 in
|1971....
|The 360 replaced the 1400 series.....
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