Man, it's been so long since I saw a real CE that I forgot how to type
it!!!!
Tony Thigpen
-----Original Message -----
From: Schuh, Richard
Sent: 09/25/2009 06:47 PM
Back in those days, an "EC" was an "Engineering Change" and a CE was a "Customer
Engineer". You might say that, at least locally, the Engineering Change had a noticeable effect.:-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 3:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Where is the VM/CMS timeout value set
The following story was told to me by an IBM EC back about 1985.
In Huntsville, AL, a few years earlier, a disgruntled
employee went around the building, turned all the keys to off
and removed them. He then walked out with them. Back then,
there were several different key numbers used and it took IBM
about a week to get all the possible keys and get the company
back up and running.
Our EC told us to go put the keys in the 'on' position and
remove them so we would not have the same exposure.
Tony Thigpen
-----Original Message -----
From: Rob van der Heij
Sent: 09/25/2009 02:46 AM
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
