> On Sep 8, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We've had the extended version for so long that I can't remember life >> without it. What I do remember is that several years back, our software >> license folks 'forgot' to pay the SoftwareXcel bill. We were suddenly unable >> to report problems via ServiceLink. It got straightened out in a few days, >> but it was jarring to go unsupported. > > You weren't unsupported. (Just ask Timothy Sipples.) But, you probably had L1 > voice support via 1-800-IBM-SERV only. > > If you needed a fix, I'm not sure how they would send it to you these days. > Years ago it was tape only without SoftwareXcel. Yuck!
Ed, Don’t you remember the dialup connection the systems had with Boulder? *MANY* a time I dowloaded apars from Boulder. It wasn’t fun but more interesting that you had the power of the cpu’s and you were limited to 600 baud. Ed > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
