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My home insurance agent (Farmers) had an S/36 in his office. Farmers was trying to get him to put in a 400 sometime in the 90s - he refused -- I think he had to pay for it, and the 36 was doing all he needed, thank you. I haven't asked him lately what he has now.

So Farmers at one time was trying to replace 36s, not go central.

Besides, it saved on his heating bill.

Vern

At 09:22 AM 8/13/2004, you wrote:
If you had that much invested in hardware and software
and training, I doubt they went over to the "dark side".

These insurance companies generate volumes of data that
can not be imagined. They have never built a pc server
farm that can handle that sort of volume.

Insurance companies typically were MVS shops until the
S/36 came along. The S/36 allowed them to "spread" the
load out and reduce the HUGE data centers that were
required. The S/36 could process the agent data and then
send summaries to the home office every night. This was
a really big change.

I suspect a great many remain in the AS/400 world.

Since the 400 finally got big enough to handle fairly
large loads, it actually starting cutting into the MVS
world. I suspect many companies have now gone back the
other way and put terminals in the agent offices and
they are all connected to much larger network of 400's.

You don't think IBM came out with that 890 just for
your local mom and pop distribution business ????


Chuck Lewis wrote:

So did they all go the AS/400 route ?



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