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

Well, thanks to you all for your rememberances! You've started my day off
making me feeling like a "young whipper-snapper" with my mere three-years
experience with MAPICS and the AS/400. Kinda makes me forget that 10 years
ago I was writing COBOL on a PR1ME computer system! And that 24 years ago
(yikes!) I was babysitting a Honeywell with less memory than today's $10
pocket calculators and retyping punch cards when they jammed up in the
reader.

While it is not my rememberance, I do have an old MAPICS story. About 20
years ago, my brother's company was evaluating MRP packages and they had a
demo by IBM/MAPICS. When my brother commented that his company didn't do
business "that way," the sales rep snapped, "Then you'll have to change the
way you do business." My brother snapped back, "No, we'll have to select a
different MRP package." And they did.

Cheers - Joan

Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
MetalTek International         fax:  636-479-3399
The Carondelet Division        www.metaltekint.com
8600 Commercial Blvd
Pevely, MO  63070                      


-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Bradley [mailto:bradleyjohnc@home.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 6:29 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
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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