Re: American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-24 Thread Phil Smith III
"Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think the problem is (and was then) that the folks wanting to make an >reservation switch to another airline that could sell them a ticket. That would be the problem today; back in 1989 when SABRE (to the best of my knowledge) was the main air

Re: American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-23 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
"Phil Smith III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about > >American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization "joke". It > >was not a "joke",

American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-23 Thread Phil Smith III
Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about >American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization "joke". It >was not a "joke", but lack of finger checking that cause several disks of >DB2 data, etc to be initialized ins