[rescue] AS400

[Dave McGuire]

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

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