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 <mike.wal...@hewitt.com> 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
