Milwaukee, Phila, Pittsburgh were HONEYWELL/BULL mainframes. NY and Saks were IBM. All of the GIMBELS stores closed in 1986. And Kohls started their data center in Aug 1986 already employing the GIMBELS staff that they hired. Bonton is based in my area also, York PA I believe.
Bob Lawrence DBA Boscov's Dept Stores LLc > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 5:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FW: Mainframe Jobs Going Away > > > Gimbels used to have several stores in Milwaukee. I don't know if they > had a mainframe here in Milwaukee or not. Five or ten years ago, they > all became Boston Stores, which now is owned by Saks 5th Avenue. They > are in the process of being bought out by I think Bonton. I know Saks > used to have their datacenter at their downtown Boston Store in > Milwaukee, but a few years ago they closed it and merged it into their > Jackson Miss. datacenter. > > Eric Bielefeld > Sr. Systems Programmer > P&H Mining Equipment > 414-671-7849 > Milwaukee, Wisconsin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
