Re: Hop in your way back machines -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Hop in your way back machines
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:48:54 -0700
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On 7/11/13 8:22 AM, DrFranken wrote:

"What you got in that thing?" She replied "An AS/400!" Turned out she
had a model 150 in there not this little "Portable one" unit. The
Portable 1 was a CISC box and the 150 was at least RISC.

Back when they were the latest thing, we needed to cart a 150 to shows. I was charged with refitting a used (and rather beat-up) Anvil case to hold it. As a result, we referred to that particular 150 as "the anvil."

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JHHL

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