RE: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com -- MIDRANGE-L

John - 

I remember working with a S/38 Model 4 with 4MB of RAM. That was way back in
1984. It went really "big time" when we upgraded to 8MB of RAM and purchased
another 3370 disk drive. The tape drives we were using were 3410/11's ....
Way slow compared to the 3590's I use today! We also didn't have anything
like RAID, Mirroring or Checksum in the very early days. I lost two 3370
disk drives within the same week once. Both times I had to reload the
complete system from backup... There was also a System 3 Model D in our
shop, but it was on it's way out along with an old Data General system and
dozens of 300 BAUD modems... My goodness....

In 1984 I had just come from working at the bank where I worked with System
370 machines.

Things like 370 model 150 (???)running DOS/VSE, 4300 systems running VM and
OS VS1 and at one time in the late 70's an 
IBM 3031 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. The RAM enclosure alone took up as much
space my current office! The 3350 disk drives filled a whole floor in the
sub basement. We have come a long way in 26 years. 

I remember my boss at the bank trying to talk me out of leaving by telling
me I was leaving the "real world" of Data Processing to go work with a
little "toy" of a system.... He said I was making a BIG mistake. Needless to
say, I'm glad I made the move.

We eventually upgraded our S/38 Model 4 to a couple of S/38 model 700's with
32MB of RAM each before moving into AS/400's in 1988.

When I started working with computers at the bank in 1976, I must have only
been 3 years old though because I'm only 29 years old now. :)

Kenneth

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Earl [mailto:johnearl@toolnet.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 1:38 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com


Wasn't the S/38 models 1 - 5 and then 100 - 700?

I remember the S/3 had a 15D model, but I don't recall a S/38 Model D.....
but I
was so young back there is 1980, I could have easily forgot  :)

I started on the S/3 15D (and still rememebr ERP, 2, RETRY) in May of 1980.
We
got our S/38 in December of 1980.  One of my first acts was to test the
message
sending capabilities.  I accidently sent a Bruce Springsteen lyric ("Is a
dream a
lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?") console while several
people were gathered around it.  Boy were they spooked!  They thought it was
this
new computer talking personally to them!  :)

John (Just a pup with 19 years experience) Earl

PS.  Like Nina, I started when I was 7.  So that make me uh....26!  Yeah,
26,
that's right, that's the ticket!



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