RE: Changing System Name

[Jromeh <Jromeh@xxxxxxx>]

Booth asked...

>Has anyone else given their AS/400 an official name and referred to it
>that way?  What reactions were there?  (Sometimes I worry that I imagine
>too much.)

At Apple's Central US D.C. in Rolling Meadows, a suburb of Chicago, 
(function transferred to Charlotte in '90) we had a S/38 M700 and a B60 
with the names JAKE and ELWOOD. Easy for the West and East coasters to 
relate to, they had KINGKONG, FAYWRAY, and others that are now foggy. 
Users always liked it too. Remember a Mac server named Guineveire (sp?) 
and conference rooms were things like "Hard Rock Cafe." 

The facility wasn't just casual, socks were optional, shorts, sweats, 
sandals allowed. Hoops and blasting stereo (not a boom box) in the 
warehouse, first week there a trip to Wrigley, sometimes a chef for 
conference room lunches. On Halloween, everyone in IS&T dressed as an 
IBMer. Should have seen the look on the CE's face when he showed up. A 
certain kind of culture. Fun place to work, never have seen a place where 
_everyone_ worked so hard.

At our consulting office, the machines were named OZ (black box, forget 
which model), TINMAN (old B20), and TOTO (P02 demo box) but a new 
sysadmin took over and renamed them, can't seem to remember the new 
names. :)


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