13 Apr
2016
13 Apr
'16
1:59 a.m.
Devin,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 02:09:00PM -0400, devin davison wrote:
A local recycling center called me and said they are
to pick up an ibm
as/400 mainframe from a working environment.
An AS/400 is a mini, not a mainframe.
I left a deposit and am scheduled to go pick it up in
the next day or so.
Congratulations!!
Where I work we've continued to use the name AS/400 for our newer boxes,
even though IBM keeps changing the name.
At home I have a small 9406-270 in my living room. I think it's technically
an iSeries. Sadly I didn't get license keys with it, so I have to reinstall
the OS every 70 days. It's powered down at the moment and overdue for a
reinstall. It also has some flaky memory, but seems to recover gracefully
from the memory errors without crashing. I'd love
to have a true AS/400, if
I had the room and power for one.
I am not even sure of what all it comes with or what
can be run on the
machine. Any advice in advance on what to expect?
Depending on its vintage it would run OS/400, i5/OS, or IBM i.
From the description it sounds like it comes with some
terminals and
printers too. could be interesting.
As others have said, be sure to get all the cables, etc. The terminals and
printers will be connected with twinax cables.
--
Kevin
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