RE: AS/400

["Bale, Dan" <D.Bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: AS/400

LOL!  But how bout some context, Ken?  What year was that?  Or does that give us more info about you than you care to share?  <g>

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

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

-----Original Message-----
From:   ken shields [SMTP:kjs@idirect.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:51 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: AS/400

Dan
        I remember my instructor made the unheard of income of $15,000/yr.
        We were agape!...

"Bale, Dan" wrote:
>
> Well, heck, I sure don't remember the model numbers of the card
> readers, but I had an RPG 1.5 class that compiled on an IBM 1130.
> Towards the end of the semester, we were effectively limited to one
> compile every 4 hours, what with the backlog on the card reader.
> Heard a lot of cursing when there was a simple syntax error and the
> compile failed.
>
> For advanced RPG II, we had to go to the local hospital (where the RPG
> instructor worked) that had a screamin' S/3 WITH INTERACTIVE
> TERMINALS!  Wow.  I remember thinking how hot *that* was!
>
> I am *not* as old as dirt!
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)