On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Mike Walter <[email protected]> wrote:
> The reason back in the "old old days" the reason was primarily security... > this was written back when REAL MEN only used real 3270's -- which had no > LOCK function. Getting off-topic...but it's friday already. In one of the shops I worked, our terminals actually did have a key. Few bothered to use it since offices were behind security anyway. Until someone discovered that the key also matched the coffee vending machine to get coffee for free :-) It took some time for management to realize why everyone suddenly nicely locked up his terminal when he went for a coffee ;-) Rob
