Re: iSeries Legends -- MIDRANGE-L





The truth be known, that "tech" was me.  It's a positively true story.

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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/24/2003 11:44:03 AM:

> Has anyone noticed the iSeries "Lost" legend story at
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/legends/
>
> It really makes no sense the way it's told.  It says a service rep shows
> up to do a check up on the "server".  For starters, take a look at how
> he's dressed.  Apart from the cap he looks more like a UPS driver.  Any
> younger and he'd be in diapers.  And is that a pocket protector for his
> pens?  (Yeah - it's funny, but I don't think they intended that to be
> funny).  Then the server is found in a room at 140'F and the A/C failed 2

> years ago, and it says it rebooted and got back to work.  SO - it had
been
> down for 2 years, since the A/C failed, and no one noticed?  It got right

> back to keeping the union organized and running, so presumably they had
> been disorganized and down for 2 years?  It sat turned off in a 140'F
room
> for two years?  Big deal, the allowable operating temperature range is
> 50'F to 100'F and for shipping or storing a system the allowable range is

> well outside that.  And I don't know about you, but I've never heard of
> anyone getting a nosebleed from the heat.  Maybe from a good punch in the

> nose, which is what the creators of this "legend" story deserve.  It's
not
> exactly the legend we've heard where the system was up and running but
had
> been walled in during office remodelling is it?  Not much of a legend at
> all really.
>
> Plus at the start, notice how the S/36 is pronounced "S 36" instead of
> "System 36".  Who ever referred to it that way?  And although there are
at
> least three TV ads running now where the xSeries name is explicitly
> mentioned at the end, despite the fact eServer is supposed to be the
> brand, this "Legend" video which isn't even being shown on TV doesn't
even
> show an iSeries logo at the end, just the generic eServer!
> This whole thing smells of something some out of touch bureaucrats and an

> army of IBM lawyers in Armonk came up with.  The IBM'ers in Rochester are

> probably hiding in the cornfields around town so they don't get blamed
for
> this.
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