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If Kevin is new to the iCommunity, he should be looking at the IBM i
operating system, which at release 6.1 will most likely be running on a
Power Systems server. The best OS on the best server on the planet.

If he is using V5R4 or before, he will be using an earlier version of IBM i
- which is called i5/OS, and earlier OS/400. And, his server could be an
AS/400, iSeries, System i5 or System i - all of which can run one of the
versions of the OS. All applications written for any version of the OS will
be able to run on the IBM i OS.

In the meantime, he should look for information on the web using all those
names, as some of the IBM i community is still posting those names to the
internet. The more common usages are AS/400 and iSeries, and while these are
names of servers, they are used to reference the hardware, the OS, the
applications, the programming languages, etc..

Welcome, Kevin.


On 12/6/08 7:30 PM, "Norm Dennis" <nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well firstly, it's not an AS/400 it's an E Server I Series, er , i Series,
um, System i, oh stuff it, Trevor can you explain?

Norm Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin Bowling
Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2008 6:10 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Intro AS/400


Hello,

I am a bit of an IBM fan and have used most of their product line (PCs,
RS/6000, even 390/z - see my pages: http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/) for
fun and work. However, I have yet to try an AS/400. I see them come
through the local computer recycler and sell on eBay cheaply enough and
would like to pick one up for home tinkering. The goal is to simply
learn and play with another computing platform.

Tips on what models to look out for would be helpful. Obviously, I
don't need a lot of compute power nor current hardware/software. The
one requirement I do have is to be able to setup/interact with the
system over Ethernet rather than fool with something like Twinax.

I also see the potential problem of finding a system with software,
since I assume it is not cheap to get a hold of os400. Any comments or
suggestions would be appreciated.. as you can tell I am a total newbie
to AS/400s.

Regards,

Kevin



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