[hackuser]

For the record, that hasn't been my experience with IBM; I used to get a pretty bad runaround, but perhaps that's changed - I stopped using their products as a result.

[khedoros]

I took "mainframe era" to be roughly the 50s through 70s or 80s. Are you talking about the same time period?

[hackuser]

No, I guess I'm talking about the post-mainframe era; perhaps the PC era.