[SunRescue] AS-400

[scohen - Stephen Cohen]

Ahh, fond memories of that which should have caused the FTC to nail IBM's
a$$ to the wall.  What a piece of junk, made particularly visible when an
IBM/XT with an S/36 emulator by California Systems (I think) could blow the
doors off of a real S/36.

I loved the story's ending - on the dock and pick it up quickly, rain is
forecasted!



-----Original Message-----
From: Sheldon T. Hall [mailto:shall1 at columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 6:52 PM
To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [SunRescue] AS-400




On Friday, December 01, 2000 12:20 PM, Bill Bradford 
[SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net] wrote:
> Anybody got some good net resources on learning how to use/admin an
> AS/400? 8-)

I dunno about the AS/400, but I can tell you a bit about its predecessor, 
the S/36.  To use that one you either had to have ...

	An infinite amount of time and the home phone numbers of about 30
IBM 
support people

	or

	A large yacht.

Ours had MAPICS installed, and the whole kit turned out to be slightly 
inferior to an IBM PC/XT with Peachtree Accounting installed.  The S/36 
setup only cost US$100,000 more than the XT, too.  Not including the 
building rewiring for its special power requirements, or all the employee 
time it took to try and make it do anything useful.

The last time I saw the S/36, it was sitting on our loading dock, our CEO 
having called IBM to come pick it up, and quickly, as rain was forecast for 
later that day.

-Shel

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