RE: STARBASE (was: Old tapes)

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL - so I wasn't the only one, eh ?

I had JUST started working there as a "junior programmer"; the DP manager
(as they were called back then) came smiling into the computer room and I
told him what had happened. He said it had happened to him and some others
in the past and we IPL'd out of it :-)

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 9:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: STARBASE (was: Old tapes)

Chuck--

How do you think -I- know about that little problem?!   (:

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




>Paul,
>
>I remember finding that out the hard way - locking up our S/38 in the
MIDDLE
>of the day... (years ago) ;-)
>
>Chuck
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PaulMmn
>Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 9:43 PM
>To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>Subject: Re: STARBASE (was: Old tapes)
>
>I remember one problem with one of the original releases of Starbase:
>It had some programs compiled at release 0 of OS/38.  Just the
>-existance- of one of these programs on an S/38 caused problems!
>
>However, there were some programs which were 'useful.'  (:  I
>remember a version of "Othello" (IIRC), which we had to restrict
>because it was too popular.
>
>We've still got a version of this library on our system.  It's been
>added to with a banner program, a mortgage calculator, and a few
>other goodies and text-pictures.
>
>--Paul E Musselman
>PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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