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  • Subject: Re: System 34
  • From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 19:04:46 -0800

We had DMAS (II ?) on our S/34 - does sound correct ? Wow - weird to remember
this stuff :-)

Chuck

Chuck

Mike Shaw wrote:

> Don,
>
> Those were the days when a new release of MAPICS was 10 diskettes and the
> PC's would be at least 15 diskettes!  :-)  What a bow-wow product that was!
> It was even worse on a S/36.
>
> Mike Shaw
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > > Al wrote:
> >
> > > With all due respect to Mr. Rima (who sent me a goodie basket of things
> for
> > > my laptop last week - so thanks to Don from one of us who are
> graphically
> > > impaired), the PTFs were called PCs (which stood for Program Changes -
> as
> > > Personal Computers were not around in 1978 when the System/38 was
> > > introduced) also came on tape.  To go from a System/38 to an AS/400 you
> had
> > > to be at CPF Release 8.0, PC 8.
> >
> > Al, "Mr Rima" is my father....:)
> >
> > PC's eh?  Hmmm..must have had them confuzed with MAPICS which WAS
> > PTF's...OY what a fun time MAPICS-I was back then...:) !
> >
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