[rescue] AS400

[Geoff Koehler]

Hi All,

Well, if it helps, I think I have OS/400 on 1/4" tapes.  The tapes came with
a non-functional AS/400 that I got from a local company  (I wanted the nice
rack).  I know nothing about them, except that they look rather old.  It
says on one tape OS/400 Version 2 Release 1 Modification 4. I think there
are some various and sundry manuals from that aquisition left over around
here somewhere, too.  Free to a good home.  BTW, anyone have a graphics XL
board for an Indy???
Cheers,
        Geoff

Geoff Koehler
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Home of the SART Observatory
http://207.195.94.13/sart
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] AS400


> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I am sure it is a great box, but they have very little resale (hence
> > it's previous home on the inside of a dumpster), AFAIK. The OS is the
> > killer, from what I understand. Without an OS, it is just so much
> > silicon.
>
>    Resale?  I wasn't aware that was how this group rates the technical
> value and usefulness of their computer hardware.
>
>    Lots of good hardware gets dumpstered.  That doesn't have a damn
> thing to do with the value of the hardware...only the intelligence of
> the administrator.  Lots of people pay good money for Windows, too, and
> it isn't worth a booger stuck to the cellophane of its wrapper.  Zero
> correlation.
>
>    And besides...if they have so little resale value, why are there so
> many companies selling used AS/400 gear for thousands or tens of
> thousands of dollars?
>
>    Now, I'm not a big AS/400 fan...but your statements here are nothing
> short of completely ridiculous, and if I didn't know better, I'd swear
> you were trolling.
>
> > OK - But I think software will be, uhm, challenging - IBM is very good
> > at making sure they get paid for their software...
>
>    Well, if he doesn't have an OS, sure.  Dude...if I can get Unicos for
> a Cray supercomputer, I'm sure someone can find a copy of OS/400.  Come
> *on*.
>
>    And that's even assuming his machine doesn't have an OS.  I don't
> recall having heard him say it didn't.
>
> > Please don't take this the wrong way, but "have you been able to get it
> > up yet?"
>
>    I haven't tried.  However, it wasn't deinstalled (read: wiped) by
> IBM, it booted fine at the last place it was run, and I have the system
> disk.
>
>        -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire                  "Mmmm, big."
> St. Petersburg, FL                -Den
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