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May 20 2008   1:11AM GMT

What do you call your AS/System iSeries 400 in your IT shop?



Posted by: David Vasta
David on System i, i for business, i on Power, i, System i

I like every one still call the i all kinds of things. Which is of course bad but I like others in the industry want to know the following things?

  1. What do you call the i now?
  2. What do you call the i in conversations with peers?
  3. What do you call the i in conversations with executives or senior level staff?
  4. What do you call the i in private?
  5. What do you call me in private?
  6. Is the name change to i a good one?
  7. Do you like the idea of one price on box?
  8. Do you also run AIX in your IT shop?
  9. Does it make you crazy when others call it the AS/400?
  10. Does it make you crazy when others call it the iSeries?
  11. Do you get a warm felling when someone says I still have a System/36?

I can go ahead and get the ball rolling:

  1. i
  2. i or System i
  3. i or AS/400 - Most of them still call it the AS/400 so when in Rome…..I try to say AS/400 or i and then always say i
  4.  My little treasure
  5. David
  6. Yes
  7. Yes
  8. I have and would if I could YES!
  9. YES - CRAZY!
  10. Not Really but YES
  11. Of course - but not like if they said Macintosh Classic II
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Vitor Pereira  |   May 20 2008   12:18PM GMT

1 to 4 - I call it by its name, AS/400
David
Change the name? Where did you get that crazy idea?
Yes
No
No, that’s its name
No
Long time since I’ve heard that


 

Gilly400  |   May 20 2008   3:34PM GMT

i-Series
i-Series or AS/400
AS/400
The Box or the Machine
David
No
Yes
Yes, but it’s not my fault
No
No
Yes, sad but true - this time last year I was working at a site which still ran in the S/36 environment…


 

Kaesif  |   Jun 2 2008   5:14PM GMT

- AS/400 or iSeries
- 400
- Core machine (we are a bank)
- Baby
- Sven?
- Abso-flogging-lutely NOT!
- Not sure yet
- No
- No
- No
- No


 

TomN  |   Jun 2 2008   5:51PM GMT

1. “The 400”
2. AS/400
3. “The 400”
4. “The 400”
5. David
6. NO, Definitely not!
7. Yes
8. No
9. Not at all
10. Yes, but getting used to it
11. Very much so! I started on a System/3 then to a S/34 then to a S/36 and finally to the AS/400, several of those. We still even have a few apps that run in S/36E that we have just never converted… just nostalgic, I guess! Although they were updated to conform to the current F-key assignments!


 

David Vasta  |   Jun 2 2008   6:12PM GMT

Love it guys. Thanks for posting!


 

Mr Wizerd  |   Jun 2 2008   6:42PM GMT

Depends on what day it is
Depends on what day it is.
Depends on what day it is!
Depends on what day it is!!
Depends on what day it is!!!
Depends on what day it is?
Yes
Depends on what day it is.
Depends on what day it is.
Depends on what day it is.
No, but a System/38 would.