RE: Changing System Name

[David Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:41 PM 12/30/97 -0500, you wrote:


>Has anyone else given their AS/400 an official name and referred to it
>that way?  What reactions were there?  (Sometimes I worry that I imagine
>too much.)
>
>I am reminded of someone's tagline that tells us not to give
>life-characteristics to machines because they don't like it.
>
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>Booth Martin     
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Yup. When we first got our System/38, we had a "contest" to name the system.
The winner was OSCAR (for Oregon Scholarship Commission Automated Records)
and we kept that name when we moved to our current AS/400 (although we
briefly discussed changing it). We'll probably keep it for the new 620 as
well, though I think I'd like to add the roman numeral III after it (for our
third system). I like giving systems names and I think the users like it,
too. They either call our system OSCAR or refer to it as THE SYSTEM. We also
had names for all our twinax terminals but there aren't many of those left.

David A. Murphy 
Oregon State Scholarship Commission
david.a.murphy@state.or.us

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