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Chris:
I have a friend who bought an AS/400 a few years ago. It was a great deal
(cost wise) on "onSale" or ebay or some other auction site. I helped him
get it from his parent's house to his garage... where it sits to this day.
He tells me that he cannot load Linux on it until he gets the IBM operating
system for it and THAT'S EXPENSIVE. Also, the OS is keyed to the serial
number of the box so you cannot just copy it from another AS/400.
This is second-hand information. He may be wrong.
Let us know what you find out!
Eric
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:52:24PM -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> This is off topic - someone just gave me an AS/400 eServer (about 4 years old
> and apparently obsolete). Besides trying to figure out where I'll put it
> (it's huge) I need to figure out how to use it and/or what it might be useful
> for. At the very least, the components seem to be SCSI (3 disks (raid?),
> tape, cdrom) so I might be able to strip them out of the unit for use
> elsewhere. But before I do that, does anyone know what the whole unit might
> be good for? I hear that IBM has linux running on the AS/400 in virtual
> partitions. Anything besides that?
>
> thx
>
>
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