System/38 Support (was Fusion)

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:29 AM 7/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>This brings up a curiosity question:  Just how many S/38's are there
>actually left in production now?  And, who's supporting them?  I know IBM
>abandoned S/38'ers for software support back years ago (I have a client
>that can tell you just how painful that abandoning is!), which is why I've
>snarledup every PID I could find and manual so that I've hopefully got a
>full set of everything at V 8.0 or 8.1 if someone around here gets their
>system hosed again and can't get any support...
>
>

Unofficial IBM estimates that there are about 100 System/38s still in
production.  I know of two sites in the New York area, both of which are
hopelessly mired in unobservable code.

The Y2K rating for the S/38 is *HOPELESS.

During my V3R6 testing, I did successfully migrate a System/38 to V3R6.
Haven't done a real 38 into production in three years.

Al



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