IBM Series/1

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Jun 20 21:09:01 2003

--- Storc James E Civ 55 CSS/ITT <James.Storc_at_offutt.af.mil> wrote:
> Ethan:
>
> Regarding your message posted on classiccmp.org from last May, did you
> ever find a taker for the Series/1 (or any parts thereof)?

Eh? I've never owned a Series/1. The closest I came was adapting my
product (COMBOARD/3780) to *connect* to a Series/1 in an IBM network
that functioned like an X.25 cloud, but under 3780 for transmitting
EDI purchase orders. We had a customer who bought our VAXBI COMBOARD
to move purchase orders to/from WalMart/K-Mart/DoD so they could continue
to sell their product. I had to go to small-town Wisconsin to find out
that they problems were on the *other* end of the wire.

The other end was 100% IBM, but they violated their own protocol when they
re-implemented it on the "newer" hardware. :-P

-ethan
Received on Fri Jun 20 2003 - 21:09:01 BST