Wanted: IBM AS/400 in NY for a film

[Sean Caron]

I got caught on this line of inquiry and found a neat article in FT that
also discusses a little bit the IT operations of BLMIS. They name check
Stratus as well as IBM ... it's too bad his character wasn't as good as his
taste in EDP equipment!

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/89542248-9821-11de-8d3d-00144feabdc0.html

Best,

Sean


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:

> Aha ... I first saw the request and thought it was strange that a film
> would be so specific but I guess the AS/400 they ran has attained some
> notoriety of its own:
>
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021609-printer01.html
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh111609-story05.html
>
> I guess I've gotta give them credit for shooting for technical correctness
> :O Too bad it's only "set dressing" and we don't get to see any snippets of
> an interactive session on screen.
>
> Best,
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Nigel Williams <
> nw at retrocomputingtasmania.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On 30 Jul 2015, at 7:12 am, Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Interesting. So Bernie Madoff used an AS/400?
>>
>> ahh bingo! I found this comment on the Amazon book review:
>>
>> "The description of the ancient 1988 IBM AS 400 and the terminals from a
>> 1970's spy film that were still cranking away on the 17th floor when Madoff
>> went under is priceless.”
>>
>> If movie-makers are going for authenticity then they will want a
>> white-box AS/400
>>
>>
>> https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/images/overlay/4506VV4010.jpg
>>
>>
>>
>