RE: What to teach someone new to IBMi

Jim, you may remember that you could sign up for IBM Redbooks. Hard copy.

The sign up allowed you to select the categories or areas of interest.

One customer that I worked with a lot I advised them of this option - he
ticked every possible option!!

A few days later he received a message there was a delivery from IBM - He
was puzzled, even more puzzled when advised they needed a fork lift to
unload the delivery!!!

There were two pallets fully loaded and wrapped of IBM Red books

I wish I still had the photos and one of the look on his face would have
been priceless.

Don Brown





From: "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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Date: 28/04/2018 04:46 AM
Subject: RE: What to teach someone new to IBMi
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Back in the V4 days I ordered a 170. Due to my then agreements with IBM
working on the Certifications, we got a P50 version of ALL the LPPs.
(Larry, aka DrFranken, was in on that too) A full PALLET of manuals showed
up. The software, a smaller box with about 100 CDs (no DVDs yet). Think
about the cost of producing, packaging, and shipping all of that. Glad
IBM
stopped that and put that money into the OS instead. Thing was when we
loaded all that software up, the four drives on that system were about 70%
full. (Small drives by comparison to today) That's what led Larry and
me
to create the first "Frankeni" at the COMMON conference in Indianapolis.
At
one point I think we had 30 drives running on that single tower unit.

Pictures of all of that might still be available on Frankeni.com......


--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


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I didn't tell you how many I kept. Only how many I dumped. :)



On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Because if you've priced new 3 ring binders...
I donated most of the empty binders in a timely fashion. Kept a dozen
or so (we sure have the space).


Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
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Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"

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Date: 04/27/2018 01:28 PM
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I dumped at least 50 IBM 3-ring binders (all empty) this past Monday.
Don't know why I've been keeping them the past 10+ years.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Musselman, Paul <
pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob--

How long ago was that? I don't remember the last time I saw an IBM

manual!

I think we have several of the -binders- around, but the contents
were outdated around v6!

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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When I found people were limiting their development to what could be

found

in the paper manuals I removed them all after hours and inserted
them

into

the dumpster.

Infocenter has a "What's New" section and even each section
(languages, Db2, etc) have their own "What's new" sections. And
they are updated at TR, or group, or on a whim.


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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