[rescue] AS400

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 10:38 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> 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...

   Have you lost it?  This is a [presumed] functional server-class 
computer.

>> 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...

   AS/400s make damn fine database servers, as I understand it.

   As far as the actual question...Ethernet and FDDI interfaces are 
pretty easy to come by for these machines.  I have a 9402 that came 
with ethernet, and I scored a FDDI board for it on eBay for like ten 
bucks.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                  "Mmmm, big."
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