Re: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com

"Graap, Ken" wrote:

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< I lost two 3370 disk drives within the same week once.>

Remember that INCREDIBLE noise those things would make ? Be a "late" baby 
boomer,
it ALWAYS reminded me of the Snidely Whiplash segments when he was trying to run
someone through the sawmill !!

<We have come a long way in 26 years.>

Heard something the other day (ABC and that Peter Jennings special)

>From the time Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo trip across the 
>Atlantic
to the time Apollo 11 (?) launched for the landing on the moon was 46 (?) years
!!! AND Charles was there to see the launch !!

Chuck

>
> I remember my boss at the bank trying to talk me out of leaving by telling
> me I was leaving the "real world" of Data Processing to go work with a
> little "toy" of a system.... He said I was making a BIG mistake. Needless to
> say, I'm glad I made the move.
>
> We eventually upgraded our S/38 Model 4 to a couple of S/38 model 700's with
> 32MB of RAM each before moving into AS/400's in 1988.
>
> When I started working with computers at the bank in 1976, I must have only
> been 3 years old though because I'm only 29 years old now. :)
>
> Kenneth
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Earl [mailto:johnearl@toolnet.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 1:38 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com
>
> Wasn't the S/38 models 1 - 5 and then 100 - 700?
>
> I remember the S/3 had a 15D model, but I don't recall a S/38 Model D.....
> but I
> was so young back there is 1980, I could have easily forgot  :)
>
> I started on the S/3 15D (and still rememebr ERP, 2, RETRY) in May of 1980.
> We
> got our S/38 in December of 1980.  One of my first acts was to test the
> message
> sending capabilities.  I accidently sent a Bruce Springsteen lyric ("Is a
> dream a
> lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?") console while several
> people were gathered around it.  Boy were they spooked!  They thought it was
> this
> new computer talking personally to them!  :)
>
> John (Just a pup with 19 years experience) Earl
>
> PS.  Like Nina, I started when I was 7.  So that make me uh....26!  Yeah,
> 26,
> that's right, that's the ticket!
>
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