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If there's anything that the PC guys have over us AS/400 (excuse me-- iSeries) types, is indicator lights. Our PC Servers have lights for each disk, and it's really impressive to watch a bank of lights merrily flickering as the PCs think. WHY DON'T AS/400s HAVE INDICATORS? Yes, I know that the disks have indicator lights, but they're buried under the covers. I WANNA SEE BLINKING LIGHTS! (: It's not a -real- computer unless it has SeaView style lights! Remember the huge panel (4' x 8' at least!) for the front of the 'computer--' lights marching in waves across the panel, making pretty patterns. The original StarTrek had lights, but they looked like they actually -did- something! It's like the blinking colon on a digital clock-- the colon blinks so you 'know that it's working.' --Paul E Musselman PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com
Gosh I'd forgotten that. Every morning you came in you pushed the "Test Lamps" pushbutton. If a lamp was out you phoned IBM and a service engineer parachuted into the parking lot. Its making me all misty here,.. :')
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