Re: The Magic Box

Al,

Too bad the folks at eBay.com are using Oracle. If they'd been using AS/400,
perhaps the system wouldn't have crash and made national headlines a couple
of weeks ago.

Bob Cozzi
www.rpgiv.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 11:40 AM
Subject: RE: The Magic Box


> At 05:20 PM 7/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
> A few thoughts:
>
> First of all, the AS4D is not happy about the fact that I am referring to
> the Magic Box as "the girl that I wanted to date in High School, although
I
> never got my way", but screw them.
>
> Likely they pulled the kink intentionally, or it was running on some screw
> up, unreliable server, like a RS/6000 or Netfinity.  My pages have been
> running on  an AS/400 for almost two years with NO unplanned downtime.
>
> Al
>
>
> >I get a 404 when I go to that page...
> >---Bob Kraai
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:   Pete Hall [SMTP:pbhall@execpc.com]
> >Sent:   Thursday, July 01, 1999 8:10 PM
> >To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >Subject:        Re: The Magic Box
> >
> >At 12:32 07/01/1999 , Al Barsa wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Well IBM has come out with the replacement of the neat AS/400 ad
> > >campaign.  Take a look at:
> > >
> > >http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/magicbox/index.html
> >
> > >
> > >This is an AS/400 advertisement, showing a picture of (what I think is)
an
> > >RS/6000 SP2, larger than life, with a larger than life person, shot
> > >(apparently) in a square someplace in Europe.  (It looks very much like
> >the
> > >square downtown in Salzburg Austria, but I am not positive.)
> >
> >Did you click the AS400 magic box  link? It leads you to a page with a
> >picture of little girls dancing in a circle around an AS/400, along with
> >text that's almost as useful as the picture. This pair of pages is
probably
> >one of the least professional looking adverts I've seen. Does IBM have
any
> >ad people at all? These guys are about as artsy as I am.
> >
> >Pete Hall
> >pbhall@execpc.com
> >http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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