RE: Anyone ever had an iSeries stolen?

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe IBM should take a cue from the car industry (New Beetle, new T-Bird,
new Mini Cooper) and start selling a retro iSeries called the System/38i.
It would look like four washing machines welded together, with a built in
tiny green screen console, a keyboard that generates a mechanical "clunk"
when you hit a key, and red plunger to pull in the event of an emergency.
Internally it could be an 825 and a whole bunch of scrap iron.

I know that marketing the iSeries is discouraged, but geezers are strong
market with great buying power.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Landess [mailto:sjl_123@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:03 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Anyone ever had an iSeries stolen?


You may be kidding, Paul,

But back in the mid-90's an old client of mine *seriously* considered
gutting his old S/34 and putting his advanced S/36 inside the chassis.  He
was of the opinion that "bigger is better", and he liked the way the S/34
looked better than the new small system.

Steve