[geeks] Messy other stuff

[Ken Hansen]

I was thinking more of the "closet full of ss/2 bases, when one fails, swap in another" model.

The "house (and garage) full of cool stuff" model is more an expression of who David is, as opposed to a commercially-viable business model, IMHO.

I suspect they were 486 machines with a decent amount of RAM (16 Meg, maybe 32 Meg) and running some sort of 3270 emulation package as a terminal to a mainframe CICS application, all on top of an OS/2 base.

Ken 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:39 AM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Messy other stuff


On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:43:59AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> I was not amazed that the machine was running (they were well designed), 
> but that they were still in use. 

If its not broke, dont fix it...

> I wonder if they follow the Dave McGuire model and have a small 
> warehouse full system bought for a few dollars each...

The Dave McGuire model would have a Cray in a room in the bank, emulating
the 386, running the ATM software... 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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