>in different companies used mostly for accounting, logistics, and some POS systems that were entirely lacking any IT department or even the odd tech geek. I s

>in different companies used mostly for accounting, logistics, and some POS systems that were entirely lacking any IT department or even the odd tech geek. I saw this as well, at least in a way. As a contractor a few weeks out of college, I worked at a regional telco provider that had an AS/400 used for accounting etc. While a reasonably tech-ey firm (they were an ISP as well as providing pager service, frame relay, and other fun relics of a another era), nobody really knew how the AS/400 worked so they were a little wary of letting the new guy use it. It hadn't ever gone down to anyone's recollection, but they were pretty sure that with the staff they had they wouldn't know how to quickly bring it back up if things went pear-shaped.