Seeking your considered opinion.........

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Endre

Try going to  www.News400.com   They have a thing on AS/400 in education
right now with a Forum.
Post your question There.      I will forward your message to Partners In
Education(PIE) in IBM.

Buy a brand new 170 at the entry price.   Get the compilers you need.   You
are not doing production
entry on this machine,    just batch compiles.     Get SQL,  RPG,  COBOL,  
PDM,  etc.   The base machine 
should be fine to teach from.     Don't go used machine,    We really don't
need you teaching 
old stuff to new kids.    You can even expand into Java and C++ on the
machine.     Get 
VA/Java,  and VA/RPG ,  CODE/400.    Show them what the machine can do, 
not what it used to do.

John Carr
EdgeTech
Have Classes,  Will Travel

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>From: Endre Enyedy <e_enyedy@netside.net>

Hello all:
I am seeking the considered opinion of this list, re this situation:  I
work ( part-time at) at a vocational school, where we teach computer
programming  (intro - basic - c - cobol, etc).
I  proposed to add  RPG /400 and IV to our current syllabus - idea well  
received.  I 
even proposed a small (used) 400  to be used for RPG, using existing PCs as
  workstations.  

But:

The President (owner) consulted with one of his friends , who just happens 
to be an
IBM bussiness partner - and this guy suggested (and quoted) a machine for
over
$ 50,000, and this figure is just murdering my  project.

In the opinon of all you  Sages, what would be the really minimum
configuration to
propose and fight for  ?

Thanks to all of you


EndreE


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