[SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff

[Joshua D. Boyd]

If it is one of the newer RISC machines, you could try porting NetBSD
though.  Maybe.  I'm under the impression that they newer machines just
use the same chips that the rs/6000 machines do.  

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Chad A. Chance wrote:

> Don't even bother unless you plan on getting a support contract from IBM.
> Pretty much anything on the inside of one of these is proprietary and don't
> even think you`ll be able to find a copy of OS/400. Every copy of the OS I
> have ever seen is a burned copy from IBM with the serial number of the
> machine and the cutomer number on it as well.
> I believe that they key the OS media to the machine, At a previous employer
> we had 4 400s, we took one of the older boxes out of service and was going
> to use it as a development box only, we tried to install the  newer OS from
> one of the newer boxes, but it would not work, we eventually had to have IBM
> come out and do it for us with a new set of OS media.
> 
> IBM guards their machines and their software very well, once these go out of
> service they turn into scrap metal...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Paul Khoury
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:21 PM
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> Cc: packrats at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff
> 
> 
> Does anyone here know a lot about AS/400's?
> I know someone who has a 3174 for sale, is this worth buying?
> I have a 9402-200 AS/400 that I'd like to get running someday (If I
> can get a copy of the OS).  Also, does anyone know what RAM it uses?
> I just got a PS/2 Model 95 from the same people, I thought I might be able
> to
> use the RAM in the AS/400 also as it appears to be parity or ECC.
> 
> THanks all,
> 
> Paul
> 
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