RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6") -- MAPICS-L

Ah but you all must be children. Anyone remember the pre-Mapics IBM code. Cut my RPGII teeth in 1974 on S/3 BOMP and I&RP. It was actually some pretty amazing code for its' time.

At 09:09 AM 08/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:

Boy, you guys are really bringing back some old memories. I've been with MAPICS since the Sys/34 days and remember the pointers on OPENAR and OPNMAT files. Or better yet how about feeding the system diskettes every time you need to setup security or install/tailor. But in all fairness both the systems and applications were work horses. They ran, and ran, and are still running.....

Thanks.

Rob Newton
M.I.S. Manager
Sunroc Corporation
302-678-7800 x230 (phone)
302-678-7809           (fax)
newton@sunroc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mapics-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Kevin.Gerard@fgcorp.com
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:47 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

I worked with John recently and can vouch for his "Fogie-ness". ;-) ha ha.    I highly suspect some of his code that he wrote 20 years ago is still running, however.   I worked at a MAPICS shop that had MAPICS so long our customer number was 001. (Breeze-Illinois) Anyone remember how fun it was sitting in front of the System Console, waiting for the MAPICS message "This job may take some time" as it ran a COMPRESS after backup. One time we had a "keysort in place" last 71 hours as well. Bring back the 5251's. Great keyboard on those CRT's.
-----Original Message-----
From: gcrane@johansonmfg.com [mailto:gcrane@johansonmfg.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:33 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

You have me beat John. So far "Friend Fogie" you win the Grampa award! Boy did
we burn alot of midnight hours back on the Sys/34 and MAPICS in the very early
80's. Thank God I was younger (I am still young at heart!)   We started with 4
CRT's and 4 MAPICS apps. Now we have 20 apps. Same company.

"John C. Bradley" <bradleyjohnc@home.com> on 08/16/2001 07:29:01 AM

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Subject: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

I've started this thread after being "inspired" by
Dave Shaw and Gail L Crane claiming 19 years of
MAPICS experience.

In this context, "Fogies" is gender neutral and
refers to years using MAPICS, not biological age
. . . yeah, right!

I fired up S/34 MAPICS-I on March 5, 1980.

It was chiseled on clay tablets in cuneiform, but
my trusty folding cuneiform template enabled me to
decode it.

We used MAPICS to (blush) run a bricks and mortar
business that built stuff you could touch and try
to profit therefrom. Quaint, huh?
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