Re: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com

Wasn't the S/38 models 1 - 5 and then 100 - 700?

I remember the S/3 had a 15D model, but I don't recall a S/38 Model D..... but I
was so young back there is 1980, I could have easily forgot  :)

I started on the S/3 15D (and still rememebr ERP, 2, RETRY) in May of 1980.  We
got our S/38 in December of 1980.  One of my first acts was to test the message
sending capabilities.  I accidently sent a Bruce Springsteen lyric ("Is a dream 
a
lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?") console while several
people were gathered around it.  Boy were they spooked!  They thought it was 
this
new computer talking personally to them!  :)

John (Just a pup with 19 years experience) Earl

PS.  Like Nina, I started when I was 7.  So that make me uh....26!  Yeah, 26,
that's right, that's the ticket!



Dave Willenborg wrote:

> I may have 99% of the list beat as far as years ago is concerned. Started
> programming  on an IBM 1620 computer using SPS in March 1963. First
> midrange was November 1981, System 38 model D using COBOL.
>
> Dave Willenborg
> MIS Manager
> J. C. Robinson Seed
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> >1971.  That was 28 years ago this past January.
> >
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> >               From:   Colin Williams [mailto:Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk]
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> >               What year was that, if I may be so bold!
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> >
> >                               I didn't see my first system listed either,
> >so I picked
> >               the
> >               Sys/3.
> >                               The first system I worked on was an IBM 1130
> >with 8k of
> >               memory running Fortran with Commercial Subroutines.
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