When I worked for the Ontario government in the early 1980's, we had four 
3033's all named after the original colours that they had been as 370's. They 
were all blue by the time I started working there, but there we signs over each 
one stating which colour they were and you could use the /*ROUTE JCL card to 
actually state which colour  you wanted the job to run on

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  Original Message  
From: William Donzelli
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 23:12
To: [email protected]
Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

> To commemorate the 50th anniversary of S/360 I wrote a blog that many of you 
> may have seen already but just in case you missed it:
>
> http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.html

Very nice, thank you.

One thing I noted was the bit about the colors - how each upgraded
system had to be a different color. You were probably one of the very
few shops that picked green and brown from IBM. These actually were
standard paint options for many systems during the late 1970s, but as
far as I can see, were almost completely unpopular.

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Will

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