[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] TCF?!

[Valle, Brian]

usually wharehouse management.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:29 AM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Cc: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: [SunRescue] TCF?!


So, what does one do with an AS400?  If I bought what, what could I get it
to do other than sit there and look pretty?  Is it a cost effective way to
get a database server?  Can the things be cheaply colo'ed?  I'm all for
old hardware, but I never understood what the average person could do with
an AS/400 (or why a company would want them unless the software they
needed required one).

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 3 May 2001, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> > See http://www.tcfshow.com/
> > 
> > Ken
> > (I'll be the tall guy, laughing for no particular reason at most of the
> > offerings - last year the biggest hit was the $50 AS/400s "complete" in
> > short racks, ready to roll!)
> 
> Now, Ken... I can't laugh at all over 50 buckeroo AS/400's, complete.
> Last year, in the Friday Frendly MooU Surplus Diving Pit Feeding Frenzy,
> I picked up a perfectly fine AS400 with 6x800gb differential drives, plus
> a differential 9 track tape (to make my VAX happy), for 20 bucks.
> Granted, it was a beast to shoehorn into the back of my van, even with
> seats removed, but there were a lot of hardware in that critter at that
> price......(:+}}, but ya gots ta be careful... they be hernia-makers,
> fer sure, they be.....
> 
> Bob
> 
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