Re: Happy Birthday IBM i! 25 Years strong.

The first "real" one to arrive at the Toronto Lab wasn't as lucky Dan. They dropped it off the loading dock and the frame bent so badly that although (in the end) we found that the boards still worked you couldn't plug them back in. We had to wait weeks for a new frame.


On 2013-06-21, at 10:36 AM, Dan <drothman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/21/2013 8:39 AM, DrFranken wrote:

Happy birthday to our favorite operating system and it's supporting
hardware!

On June 21, 1988 I was responsible for the AS/400 introduction at my
branch office. (This was when IBM had "systems engineers" and "branch
offices".)

We had a morning announcement event in a nice hotel, and then we had to
rush our AS/400 Model B10 back to the office for a System/36 User Group
meeting. A salesman and I loaded the B10 into his pickup truck and we
drove off, not troubling to secure the AS/400 for the two mile journey.

The pickup had one of those bed liners which are quite slippery, so when
we stopped at a traffic light the B10 slid the entire length of the bed
and thumped into the back of the cab with a loud bang. We got back to
the branch office without further mishap, carried the B10 into the
briefing center, and plugged it in.

This was my first product launch, and I suspected there weren't many
spare parts available for the only AS/400 in New Hampshire, so I got on
my knees in a prayerful attitude and pressed the power button. The
little AS/400 started right up - my first clue that this was one rugged
machine.

-Dan R.

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