Re: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6") -- MAPICS-L

Title: RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

It was sad to see those logic manuals disappear, there's been nothing like it since.

I guess I'm also a fogie: 15 years MAPICS, started on MAPICS I on a S/34

Kris De Vlieger

----- Original Message -----

From: Philip Freimann

To: 'mapics-l@midrange.com'

Sent: Thursday, 16 August, 2001 03:38 PM

Subject: RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

Glad to hear I'm not the only old fogie out there. Do you remember when we had LOGIC manuals! Do you remember when the application manuals for some of the financials were half orange and half gray - because they were half MAPICS and half DMAS, CMAS or whatever?

I moved to Maryland in 1979 with a S/3-15D running IPICS and converted to MAPICS S/34 in 1980 and authored dozens of PTFs on Inventory Management.

Do you remember when you good buy (license) ALL of the MAPICS modules for far less than we pay in annual support today?

Philip Freimann

IT Director

Crane Cams, Inc.

Daytona Beach, Florida

-----Original Message-----
From: Walker, Dale [mailto:DWalker@automaticproducts.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:26 AM
To: 'mapics-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

Good one Kevin. Don't forget the part of being able to heat small rooms with the old 5251 CRTs. Count me in on the old-timers-gang; my first MAPICS gig was as a programmer with Mapics I on a Sys/34 back in 1983. No....I am really not that old. I started programming when I was 12 yrs old.     ;-)

(yea, right)

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin.Gerard@fgcorp.com [mailto:Kevin.Gerard@fgcorp.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:47 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

I worked with John recently and can vouch for his "Fogie-ness". ;-) ha ha.    I highly suspect some of his code that he wrote 20 years ago is still running, however.   I worked at a MAPICS shop that had MAPICS so long our customer number was 001. (Breeze-Illinois) Anyone remember how fun it was sitting in front of the System Console, waiting for the MAPICS message "This job may take some time" as it ran a COMPRESS after backup. One time we had a "keysort in place" last 71 hours as well. Bring back the 5251's. Great keyboard on those CRT's.

-----Original Message-----
From: gcrane@johansonmfg.com [mailto:gcrane@johansonmfg.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:33 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

You have me beat John. So far "Friend Fogie" you win the Grampa award! Boy did
we burn alot of midnight hours back on the Sys/34 and MAPICS in the very early
80's. Thank God I was younger (I am still young at heart!)   We started with 4
CRT's and 4 MAPICS apps. Now we have 20 apps. Same company.

"John C. Bradley" <bradleyjohnc@home.com> on 08/16/2001 07:29:01 AM

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cc:    (bcc: Gail L Crane/Johanson/JMC)

Subject: MAPICS Old Fogies (was "mapics 6")

I've started this thread after being "inspired" by
Dave Shaw and Gail L Crane claiming 19 years of
MAPICS experience.

In this context, "Fogies" is gender neutral and
refers to years using MAPICS, not biological age
. . . yeah, right!

I fired up S/34 MAPICS-I on March 5, 1980.

It was chiseled on clay tablets in cuneiform, but
my trusty folding cuneiform template enabled me to
decode it.

We used MAPICS to (blush) run a bricks and mortar
business that built stuff you could touch and try
to profit therefrom. Quaint, huh?
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