"System Requires Attention" key was GRPJOB

One place I worked at many year ago, all the staff (even the system people)
referred to the Attn Key as the "System Requires Attention" key due to "Sys
Req" being what was written at the top. Of course, that was the key that
evoked the System Request menu when the Shift Key Pressed. Think Keyboards
on 5250 terminals like 5251, 5291, 5292 (my favourite), 3180 etc.

Even when I pointed out that, for example, they never called the "5" key the
"Five Percent Key" even though it had a "5" and a "%" on it, I could never
change the jargon and it grated on me every time I heard it. Literally, for
years.

Glad I got that off my chest after all this time ;)

Regards
Evan Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, 28 July 2009 11:53 p.m.
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: GRPJOB

David

The Esc key is mapped to be the ATTN key - that is what gives you a
group job - shift-esc give you SYSREQ most of the time - of course,
these can be changed in almost any emulator. But it is not functioning
as an ESC key, rather as the ATTN

Regards
Vern

Regards
Evan Harris