I worked and studied at System 36 at the beginning of my profession between 1990-1993 (I was born in 1969), in Hungary in the rural factory of the country's largest machine manufacturing company. It was a great experience for me at the time. We wrote programs for it in Kobol and Basic. I will never forget! ...and even the sound of the keyboard rings in my ears! Thanks for the upload!
The Rochester plant came up with the S/32. It was a single person machine with a small screen designed for small businesses or departments of large businesses. It leased for $1000/mo. A competitor came out with a multiple workstation computer like the system /34, but about a year ahead of IBM. The IBM General Systems Staff at Atlanta HQ came up with a sales strategy saying the customer should start with a single workstation system to get the experience of working with a screen and then move to a multiple workstation system, which would give Rochester enough time to develop a multiple workstation system. Amazingly, the strategy worked. I believe the name of the competitor was NBI which stood for Nothing But Initials.
I had an after high-school job coding on the System/32. My boss was an IT consultant when they hardly existed back then. He upgraded to a System/34 and we converted all of the software to run in a multi-workstation environment. My boss then got pissed at IBM about something and he lured Sperry Univac in who said their system was 100% compatible with our S/34 code. That Sperry system sat there for 2 years and never ran a single line of code.
IBM seemed to be good at using tricks to stop people into buying other stuff, ask Alan Sugar. The PC1640 only had a fan in it because of supposed rumors from IBM people that no fan meant it was unreliable, given the PSU was in the monitor it kept itself cool just fine, Alan just realised that adding a fan was a way to end the rumours with little cost to Amstrad. Admittedly their replacement (the PC2) was unreliable, but that was nothing to do with the quality/build of the machines but rather dodgy hard drives, which they then recalled and repaired, although the damage was done by then. They ended up suing Seagate (and WD?) for damages and won. At one point Amstrad had a huge share of the European PC business, something like 25%!
I never worked on an IBM mini, I was a mainframe guy - closest I came was the IBM 4381 scale-down mainframe. That was a very nifty compromise and you gt to work with the familiar MVS-XA OS and subsystems. I worked sometimes with AS/400 machines though and they were dead easy to operate. I think that was the idea of the S/36, it didn't require a deep level of knowledge to operate and sysadmins had no issues supporting it.
Cut my programming teeth on the S36 back in 1984. Eventually, I ended up on the AS400 years later. Great architecture and scaling, the S series of IBM platforms changed the mini-computer world forever and for the better.
Amazing how much these systems cost back then - thousands of dollars. Today, you have to pay someone to take one off your hands, and your small iPhone or Android is many times more powerful. Such is the speed of computer development.
In the 80's pharmaceutical distributor Bergen Brunswig operated 40 S34/S36s at all of their warehouses nation wide. By 1992, these were all migrated to the AS400.
Worked on the S36 in the 90's for a large UK retail outlet (Had about 20 of them). Great system and the replacement was even better (AS/400) Still remember the commands!
Well... One thing I did in 1988, with IBM 36 was to learn how to program in both Cobol and RPG and in 2020 I don't even remember how to program it... Thanks Microsoft! :p
Ahh, the satisfying click of those old IBM keyboards. Kinda like the old Western Electric phones. indestructible!
I got started on my profession working on these. Great machines.
I worked and studied at System 36 at the beginning of my profession between 1990-1993 (I was born in 1969), in Hungary in the rural factory of the country's largest machine manufacturing company. It was a great experience for me at the time. We wrote programs for it in Kobol and Basic. I will never forget! ...and even the sound of the keyboard rings in my ears! Thanks for the upload!
The Rochester plant came up with the S/32. It was a single person machine with a small screen designed for small businesses or departments of large businesses. It leased for $1000/mo. A competitor came out with a multiple workstation computer like the system /34, but about a year ahead of IBM. The IBM General Systems Staff at Atlanta HQ came up with a sales strategy saying the customer should start with a single workstation system to get the experience of working with a screen and then move to a multiple workstation system, which would give Rochester enough time to develop a multiple workstation system. Amazingly, the strategy worked. I believe the name of the competitor was NBI which stood for Nothing But Initials.
I had an after high-school job coding on the System/32. My boss was an IT consultant when they hardly existed back then. He upgraded to a System/34 and we converted all of the software to run in a multi-workstation environment. My boss then got pissed at IBM about something and he lured Sperry Univac in who said their system was 100% compatible with our S/34 code. That Sperry system sat there for 2 years and never ran a single line of code.
IBM seemed to be good at using tricks to stop people into buying other stuff, ask Alan Sugar. The PC1640 only had a fan in it because of supposed rumors from IBM people that no fan meant it was unreliable, given the PSU was in the monitor it kept itself cool just fine, Alan just realised that adding a fan was a way to end the rumours with little cost to Amstrad.
Admittedly their replacement (the PC2) was unreliable, but that was nothing to do with the quality/build of the machines but rather dodgy hard drives, which they then recalled and repaired, although the damage was done by then. They ended up suing Seagate (and WD?) for damages and won.
At one point Amstrad had a huge share of the European PC business, something like 25%!
City Hall just got their IBM 36 today. It's such an improvement over the abacus.
I never worked on an IBM mini, I was a mainframe guy - closest I came was the IBM 4381 scale-down mainframe. That was a very nifty compromise and you gt to work with the familiar MVS-XA OS and subsystems. I worked sometimes with AS/400 machines though and they were dead easy to operate. I think that was the idea of the S/36, it didn't require a deep level of knowledge to operate and sysadmins had no issues supporting it.
The Unix?
Webseal inc still exists, great!
Cut my programming teeth on the S36 back in 1984. Eventually, I ended up on the AS400 years later. Great architecture and scaling, the S series of IBM platforms changed the mini-computer world forever and for the better.
Amazing how much these systems cost back then - thousands of dollars.
Today, you have to pay someone to take one off your hands, and your small iPhone or Android is many times more powerful.
Such is the speed of computer development.
If you have one i can take it for free no charges :D
In the 80's pharmaceutical distributor Bergen Brunswig operated 40 S34/S36s at all of their warehouses nation wide. By 1992, these were all migrated to the AS400.
Wow i had one of those back in the day. Nice.
I think our company used this. It used floppy disks the size of dinner plates.
Worked on the S36 in the 90's for a large UK retail outlet (Had about 20 of them). Great system and the replacement was even better (AS/400) Still remember the commands!
We still use those on the i series.... lol
Lets Keep it real! Dr. Phillips is going golfing and meeting up with his secretary at the country club for dinner.
they both give off that vibe
Yeah. RPGIII and IMAS34.
Worked with all of the old girls S34 - 36 - 38 - AS/400, WANG 2200.
I'm over it.
Well... One thing I did in 1988, with IBM 36 was to learn how to program in both Cobol and RPG and in 2020 I don't even remember how to program it... Thanks Microsoft! :p
Una producción de periscope film en colaboración con radio televisión española
I still use the IBM 3270 daily at work.
Lol really?
Where
Where
@@bbuggediffy a railroad
I wonder which customer got the larger discount on this system for their testimony ?
8:33 Check out that beard on the Billy Goat.
Can you please show the moon landing?
TVE, SA ©1983
Live from lookout mountain
That's not good from a privacy perspective - the data shown at 2:32 as an example is real ....
1. If you pause you'll see no one's personal information is displayed
2. THIS IS FROM 1983!
Linda Lively. The person that wrote that script new how to get the attention of the male views.
7:49 dude has a sweet coronavirus mask.....
a common dust mask is 'sweet' ?
Another fantastic and entertaining video, Peri! Keep 'em coming, please, they're a God-send during this ridiculous "house arrest" Covid 19 bullSH*T
ridiculous? How many pandemics have you experienced? There's a reason to limit the spread.
@@tomservo5007 no SH*T Sherlock!! but that doesn't mean I have to LIKE any part of it!