[rescue] AS400

[Lionel Peterson]

--- dave venable <venabledavid at qwest.net> wrote:
> I rescued an AS400-510 today with a disk array, all software,
> manuals, and
> cables. I also rescued a smaller AS400. I have not had the time get
> that
> model number yet.

You got the OS, right? I think you are SOL without the IBM licenses (to
call this proprietary is an understatement!)
 
> It is all Token Ring of course. My question is, how hard would it to
> get some kind of file sharing going, accesable to PCs? SMB, NFS?

How deep are your pockets... If I were you I would think salvage - pull
the drives (hopefully they are SCSI of some common flavor), find fun
uses for the circuit boards, and then do some decorating with the now
empty cabinet...

> Are these cool? They are filling up a corner of my classroom. If
> nothing else, they should provide some heat to the room.

Cool is in the eye of the beholder...


=====
Lionel

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