Re: Happy Birthday IBM i! 25 Years strong. (DrFranken)

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remember the pallet of software and manuals that arrived with early 
upgrades? It took half a day to unpack everything and replace all the 
old manuals with the new ones in the books and on the shelves.

I think my kids got every three ring binder they ever needed in school 
from those upgrades!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 6/21/2013 9:47 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:

> And they were tapes. Or diskettes. I remember upgrading the OS on diskette.
> And tape.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I was with a software company when I first got my hands on a machine about
> > 8
> > months prior to announcement day. Every Monday, we'd get a fresh batch of
> > ptf tapes.
> >
> > Paul Nelson
> > Cell 708-670-6978
> > Office 512-392-2577
> > nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Loeber
> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:16 AM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Happy Birthday IBM i! 25 Years strong. (DrFranken)
> >
> >     I'm celebrating today by doing my first hot disc swap.  Couldn't do that
> >     on my B10 25 years ago.
> >
> >     Rich Loeber - @richloeber
> >     Kisco Information Systems
> >     [1]http://www.kisco.com
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >     On 6/21/2013 9:05 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:
> >
> >   +1
> >
> >   Paul Nelson
> >   Cell 708-670-6978
> >   Office 512-392-2577
> >   [2]nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >   From: [3]midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >   [[4]mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Kern
> >   Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 7:56 AM
> >   To: Midrange
> >   Subject: RE: Happy Birthday IBM i! 25 Years strong. (DrFranken)
> >
> >   Here here - (raises glass - or more correctly cup of coffee).
> >
> > References
> >
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> >     1. http://www.kisco.com/
> >     2. mailto:nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     3. mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     4. mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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