RE: AS/400 History

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, July 09, 1998 9:31 AM, Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net] 
wrote:
> At 07:03 PM 7/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I think it was System/3 and 36, then System 38.  The Sys/38 had
> > S36 emulation from almost day one.  How could it emulate a
> >machine that didn't already exist?
> >
> The correct order was S/3, S/32, S/34, S/38 and AS/400.
>
> The System/38 never had S/36E.  This notion did not start until the
> AS/400
> was announced.

All this talk about old machines made my fingers relapse 10 years:  I just 
tried to use option 8 to edit a source member a few minutes ago!  I can 
remember how hard it was to re-train my fingers from the /38 displays to 
their /400 counterparts.  There was a time when I actually had to work on 
a S/3 mod 15 console, 3277-2 display attached to the S.3 (CCP), S/38 
console (64 columns?!), 5251-11 display attached to the /38, 3741-1 (and 
2) data entry and a 3196-A1 display attached to a S/34 and S/36 via a 
Black Box twinax switch.  All in the same machine room.  What a mess. 
 It's much nicer today that we can use a single, customisable PC keyboard 
layout to talk to multiple machines.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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