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Subject: RE: What do you tell folks you work on?
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:41:50 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx / David Gibbs
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:27 PM
>
> Seriously, I tell folks that I work on IBM Mini-computers.  If they
> pursue the question, I go into a bit of detail about cross-platform
> stuff, iSeries, Linux, NT, etc.

Yer showin' your age, David!  Geez, "mini" is ... is so '70s-ish!  Mini
seems to predate the desktop PC, so while it may have been "mini" compared
to the mainframes back in the day, you should hardly call it mini today.
And, yes, PCs were once known as microcomputers, but when was the last time
you heard that term?

When I verbally describe the system I work on, I usually use "IBM business
computer systems".  I think I started using that term as I was migrating my
skills from S/36 to AS/400.  If the person asking has any computer
background, I'll usually just come right out and say "AS/400".

db

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Re: What do you tell folks you work on? , Alan Cassidy
RE: What do you tell folks you work on? , James H H Lampert

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