[rescue] AS/400 question

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Mike Hebel wrote:

> > Just so we're on the same page, I'm talking about the RISC ones, not
> > the CISC.
> >
> > You just have to pay for it.  IBM publishing sells this kind of stuff
> > for writing commercial software on larger systems.  I have all the
> > ones from S/370 (original) all the way to z/Arch.  They're cheap too.
>
> So what you're saying is that the two large white boxes I've passed up
> in my life, complete with tapes, are something I should be kicking
> myself for not collecting and learning on? (0)

You had an AS/400 *with OS* and you *passed it up*!?

> And why don't they publish the CISC ones?  Don't they _want_ outside
> apps written for it.... *blink* Duhh....nevermind...
>
> Hmmm...I wonder if the one company still has the one system...
>
> *smacks self in face*
> Bad Mike!  Moving now!  Hardware _after_ you move!
> ;-)

Where is it?  I might take it.

Peace...  Sridhar