Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:34:07 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 58 Message-ID: <87fv0042dc.fsf@garlic.com> References: <76e37a9d-b2e3-402e-b98a-67515818cc66@googlegroups.com> <5f2012ae-eb5c-4b5f-bc74-cc7b6b0e93fd@googlegroups.com> <4200cc76-c42b-40f6-9c84-0336cf988d44@googlegroups.com> <34e384d8-c99e-439d-9393-9b64e3465815@googlegroups.com> <46ec4e6f-c036-4676-aadb-4b4eeba6f952@googlegroups.com> <9e7eed39-e172-4fe9-a6da-7062adc5229a@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="7005"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181cpx2lhyFaSzo57rAYNRgFQ7OowvsoAg=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+d8rZyu5mmbfaJ60B8RqZA4H8ps= sha1:luvIiiBWwL3bQmmVilJT88NmdZ0= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:154698 Charlie Gibbs writes: > Not likely. The mayor's brother-in-law's construction company doesn't > build them that way, and they make too much money filling potholes. I drove cross country in the winter to join science center in cambridge ... there was marked difference in I90 road quality crossing into mass (mass turnpike) ... i made reference to frost heaves being worse on mass turnpike than Idaho county roads in the rockies (i.e. little or no road bed rather than 6ft deep needed as countermeasure to frost heaves). Mass natives made jokes about interests required constant/reoccurring road repair every year (relative small scale compared to the "big dig" where claims were tha 90%, nearly $20B? disappeared into pockets). past posts mentioning mass turnpike (& annual reoccurring revenue) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#28 trains was: Al Gore and the Internet http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#35 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#36 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#68 Killer Hard Drives - Shrapnel? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#67 The problem with installable operating systems http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#69 The problem with installable operating systems http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#11 Idiot drivers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#36 The Pankian Metaphor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#39 The Pankian Metaphor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#6 Greatest Software Ever Written? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#74 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#38 what does xp do when system is copying http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#73 Cormpany sponsored insurance http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#22 dollar coins http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#24 dollar coins http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#26 dollar coins http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#55 The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Employees http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#12 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#7 U.S. Files Breakup Plan http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#72 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 past posts mentioning "big dig" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#25 TGV in the USA? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#73 Cormpany sponsored insurance http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#41 fraying infrastructure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#56 IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters' http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#0 Urban transportation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#14 The PC industry is heading for collapse http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#15 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#18 other days around me http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#48 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970