Re: IBM AS400 Model 2130 Server at Egghead.com

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Charly,

  Correct on the Software charges, it gets no cheaper.  You could
certainly use this as a one man show and actually do more than that. 
Since it will run V4R5 you could play with almost anything you want, web
servering, network stuff like filtering, NAT, PPP, make it a mail
server, or just do RPG programming on it.  Is it gonna hadle a big load?
Nope. But it'll run! Just cram in all the memory you can.  

  I know of more than one company that put their EDI on such a box. This
because the charge for the software on the P30 machine they run
production on was more than the small system including hardware,
software, maintenance, power, HVAC, tapes, and moving data between them,
PLUS the weekly dusting!

  - Larry

ps: I still have a S/36 and a S/38 available for your museum....
pps: Anyone need some 6606 2-GB drives? I just located another dozen or
more stashed in a computer room.

Charly Jones wrote:
 
> Looks like a __great__ deal to me.  What am I missing?  The software
> doesn't get any cheaper than the P05 prices you listed, does it?
> I know the hardware prices are dropping, but $249 is lower than
> any 64-bit Risc processor I've seen recently.  I am tempted...
> Very tempted.  Would a 13.8 Telative System Performance be good
> enough for an individual "personal computer" with a real operating
> system?  If a company wanted to create an
> intranet web server without mucking up the production system,
> wouldn't this be a good starter system?
> 
> Seems like IBM would like us all to agree that a Model 400 is only
> good for filling up the nearest landfill.  I can think of
> lots of ways to use one.

-- 
Larry Bolhuis
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
(616) 451-2500
(616) 451-2571 -fax
lbolhuis@arbsol.com
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