RE: Moving to Mac

There's a phone number in my area - it's for some repossessed homes
thing or whatever - the number is 666-6666. Bet they get a lot of late
night messages from drunken devil worshipers.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Moving to Mac
> From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, September 01, 2004 2:21 pm
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> LOL... HOPE not :-)
> 
> That reminds me of something that happened, probably over 20 years ago now.
> I had just started at a sight and they were fighting with the IBM menu
> system and where I had previously worked we used a file based menu system
> that we had come up with. I outlined this to them, it was all that hard but
> pretty radical back then I guess (this was on a fairly new S/38) and so I
> set to work coding it. I got it done and "demo'd" it to them and loved it.
> One of my co-workers who was responsible for menu maintenance among other
> things looked like he could do cart wheels :-)
> 
> So I loaded up the base menu option file and we had certain #'s reserved.
> 999 was sign off, 888 was WRKSPLF can't remember what 777 was, 666 was
> display messages, 555 was wrkoutq, etc. I wasn't even THINKING of it when I
> did it I was just picking the highest #'s for specific stuff that was going
> to stay the same and started at 444 and went. We got a call from a user that
> did NOT want to have messages use 666. I felt sort of bad because I had
> TOTALLY overlooked that...
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:05 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Moving to Mac
> 
> >How many files on your system are "777"? :)
> 
> I don't know about files, but I'm sure my users think my programs are
> 666.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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