Subj : XP Home -> XP Pro
To   : Gary Ailes
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Nov 17 2004 10:20 am

Hello, Gary.

On 17 Nov 04 at 05:41, Gary Ailes wrote to Sean Dennis:

 GA> I'm curious what portion of the banking industry uses OS/2?  I'm
 GA> familiar with the industry and I'm in the Northeast as well but
 GA> haven't seen a machine with OS/2 in years.

From what I was told by a friend who works for the Treasury Department, it's 
still heavily used by them and in a lot of ATMs.  IBM just signed a 
multi-million dollar OS/2 support contract with the Treasury Department-but if 
you're asking me for specifics, I can't give them unless I go look at the 
statistics.

I know for a fact that Sears uses OS/2-I supported 200 OS/2 machines at their 
call center complex in Round Rock, Texas for about eight months.  I was one of 
two OS/2 techs, out of 2500 people at that complex... <G> and I wasn't even the 
"official" one!  The "official" one got sick one Monday... Tuesday, I was 
approached by the site manager asking if I would mind getting off the phones 
and doing some work... I spent the rest of the week installing printer drivers 
on all of the computers!  Easy way to make $17 an hour. :)

But I digress... I am really busy for the next week with work, but I will try 
to remember and get some supporting facts for you.  If you don't hear from me 
in two or three days, just send me a gentle reminder in netmail and I'll try to 
do it.  I work at Target for the holidays and starting on Monday, we'll be open 
to midnight.  Knowing my luck, I'll be stuck there until midnight, then have to 
get up at 4 AM to take my wife to work... then I'll be sleeping until 9-10 AM, 
get up, get her at 11 AM, then head off to work at about 1 PM... so that leaves 
very little time for email/netmail/echomail or even to work on my "new" BBS 
machine/setup...

Later,
Sean

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