[keithtoo]

I was a sales rep for AT&T (dont ask, we all knew our stuff - 3B2's and 3B3's etc.- SUCKED!!!)in the mid-80's. We sold against System 36's and System 38's all the time. The AS-400 came out about 1988 or so.

[Knute]

The AS-400 was out in 1987 or earlier. We had a company wide network based on that system at a retailer I worked with during that era. I cut my teeth on a DEC PDP-8 back in 1969. We learned a language called FOCAL in our high school. If I knew then what I know now...