[rescue] AS400

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 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.

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.

> >> 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.

OK - But I think software will be, uhm, challenging - IBM is very good
at making sure they get paid for their software...

>    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.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but "have you been able to get it
up yet?"


=====
Lionel

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