Amazing uptime...

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:15:38PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: This reminds me of one of the most amusing looks I ever received from a PC tech. I was working as a data entry clerk in freight bill entry somewhere near the end of the last century. My PC was running a version of Windoze that would boot without a mouse. I think it was Windoze 95. Anyway, PC techs from the home office were at the terminal I worked at doing something to all the PCs. When a tech got to mine he looked around and said, "Um ... where's your mouse?" When I pointed to the bottom drawer of my desk I think he almost went into shock. He was lost without a mouse. To keep this slightly on topic at that time freight bill entry clerks entered bills into Synergy, a text DOS based program. Each Synergy server "entered" freight bills into TFMS, a CICS based freight bill rating package, via three Attachmate sessions. We had four Synergy servers back then. As for the mainframe Synergy was "entering" bills into we were running MVS on an IBM 3090. At least I think it was a 3090, I'm not positive. I eventually made my way from data entry into mainframe operations, and I'm still working as an operator. Just before I moved into operations we upgraded to OS/390, and to a large refrigerator sized mainframe with a yellow "speed bump." I can't remember the model number. We're now running z/OS on a 2086 with a copper "speed bump." I wish I had made it into operations back when the mainframe and its peripherals filled the computer room. Sadly we eventually downgraded from the DOS based Synergy to a Windoze version. I heard it slowed down freight bill entry clerks quite a bit. If that wasn't bad enough we've now outsourced our freight bill entry to a company in The Philippines. Aaaaarrrrrggggg!! -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://Lassie.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.