Re: Upgrade path

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

True, you could not jump versions back then.  Spent lots of nights 
watching 9" reels spin very very very slowly........

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/20/2012 1:21 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> maybe back then you couldn't go direct, you had to do them in order.  When
> was this, 1989'ish I think.
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:13 PM, John McKee<jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > >  Another ancient history type of question, unfortunately, but it is nagging
> > >  me.
> > >
> > >  Back in the last century, The B50 had v1r2m0 on it.  We received tapes
> > >  from another State agency.  All was well.  Even after they upgraded to
> > >  v1r3m0.  Then, they upgraded to v2 and we could not read the tapes
> > >  (SAVOBJ format, as I dimly recall).  We were told, by our IBM rep,
> > >  that we would have to upgrade to v1r3, then do a second upgrade.  A
> > >  lot of foor dragging, and then we were told we could upgrade directly
> > >  to v2.  A night I still remember.
> > >
> > >  Does anybody know if we were initially misled by our IBM rep
> > >  concerning the n-2 upgrade?
> > >
> > >  This doesn't matter a hill of beans.  But, it sure created a lot of
> > >  heat at the time.
> > >
> > >
> > >  John McKee
> > >  --