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"Au contraire monsieur". It means a world of trouble for these 180,000 systems and their users. It isn't IBM's responsibility and the old S/36 "Classic" is not supported by IBM and hasn't been for years. On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, MR ROY H SCHNAUSS III wrote: > dear Boothm, > > I absolutely love my system 36 and in fact IBM built it too well. > This tank will probably still be around for another 50 years. They > thought that all of the machines would be phased out by now and > everyone would have upgraded to an AS/400. Even they admit that > there are 180,000 documented machines still in use and what this > means is a world of trouble for IBM when 2000 comes. > > > Roy > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com > | and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com | and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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