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:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 3:12 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > 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 > <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 > > > > >
