Mad Dog 21/21: In Memory of Hesh Wiener

April 29, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

“Stop complaining. The only thing worse than writing so many obituaries is having one written about you. Let me assure you.”

If my friend and mentor, Hesh Wiener, were alive today, that is what he would say to me with a laugh. And of course, as always, Hesh, who had no intention of leaving this world quite yet, would have been right.

We have suffered our share of losses in the IBM midrange in recent years, and here at The Four Hundred, the publication that Hesh created in the wake of the inaugural June 21, 1988, AS/400 announcements. Hesh …