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

Egads - I never thought of myself as a fogie (my kids do), but I also have been running MAPICS since 1986 (S/36 MAPICS II), and I well remember the nightly COMPRESS jobs that had to run EVERY day, or CRP and the worklist wouldn't have room to execute. We still use 5251's, the remaining data entry people we have absolutely love the keyboards, so we buy them on the web when we can get them (pretty cheap!).

Man - I've been doing this for 16 years - same company, too! (Thanks for making me feel old...) Does that mean that DP/MIS/IT people at companies using MAPICS stay at those companies longer? Seems like we aren't on the 2-2.5 year job curve. Maybe MAPICS can be promoted as "the software that gets your people to stay!"

It's fun going to the user conferences - notice that the people that used to answer the phones on the response line are all managers now? I guess there's a lot us us "fogies"....

Kevin.Gerard@fgcorp.com
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08/16/01 08:47 AM
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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.

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From: gcrane@johansonmfg.com [mailto:gcrane@johansonmfg.com]
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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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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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