24 Mar
2007
24 Mar
'07
8:45 p.m.
At 4:31 PM -0600 3/24/07, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
I have a friend who has an older AS/400 in his personal
collection
of computers. (It is in the collection because the AS/400 is unique
enough to be interesting.) He doesn't know a lot about it but he
did manage to get a console, wire it correctly, and get to the
OS/400 command line.
To do anything remotely interesting with the machine he needs to
have a development environment. I am figuring green screen COBOL, C
and RPG are good enough. Does anybody know how to engage IBM to
find out if license keys are available for home/hobbyist use?
(Other manufacturers like DEC did this for their 'bigger' iron.)
Realistically DEC is the only one that did this. To the best of my
knowledge IBM hasn't offered a Hobbyist Program for anything. I
would love to be proven wrong, as I would actually be interested in
getting a small AS/400 at some point in the future.
Zane
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