iSeries Legends

[Ron Harvey <ron.harvey2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil,

This is a real story, only it wasn't a service rep on a routine call, it was Al 
Barsa doing a favor for a sister union. I'm sure Al will hop into this a some 
point. But the story is essentially true.

Ron

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Has anyone noticed the iSeries "Lost" legend story at 
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/legends/

It really makes no sense the way it's told. It says a service rep shows 
up to do a check up on the "server". For starters, take a look at how 
he's dressed. Apart from the cap he looks more like a UPS driver. Any 
younger and he'd be in diapers. And is that a pocket protector for his 
pens? (Yeah - it's funny, but I don't think they intended that to be 
funny). Then the server is found in a room at 140'F and the A/C failed 2 
years ago, and it says it rebooted and got back to work. SO - it had been 
down for 2 years, since the A/C failed, and no one noticed? It got right 
back to keeping the union organized and running, so presumably they had 
been disorganized and down for 2 years? It sat turned off in a 140'F room 
for two years? Big deal, the allowable operating temperature range is 
50'F to 100'F and for shipping or storing a system the allowable range is 
well outside that. And I don't know about you, but I've never heard of 
anyone getting a nosebleed from the heat. Maybe from a good punch in the 
nose, which is what the creators of this "legend" story deserve. It's not 
exactly the legend we've heard where the system was up and running but had 
been walled in during office remodelling is it? Not much of a legend at 
all really.

Plus at the start, notice how the S/36 is pronounced "S 36" instead of 
"System 36". Who ever referred to it that way? And although there are at 
least three TV ads running now where the xSeries name is explicitly 
mentioned at the end, despite the fact eServer is supposed to be the 
brand, this "Legend" video which isn't even being shown on TV doesn't even 
show an iSeries logo at the end, just the generic eServer!
This whole thing smells of something some out of touch bureaucrats and an 
army of IBM lawyers in Armonk came up with. The IBM'ers in Rochester are 
probably hiding in the cornfields around town so they don't get blamed for 
this.