Re: Advice on Home Development AS400

["Charly Jones" <charly301@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nelson,

I saw an AS/400 model 400 on ebay a couple of days ago with most
of what you are asking for.  I believe the "buy it now" price
was less than $ 2,000 (USD).  It included V4R3 of OS/400, RPG,
and Query.  I think the auction ended with no buyers.

Charly Jones

>From: "Smith, Nelson" <NSmith@lincare.com>
>
>I'm looking for the smallest, cheapest RISC machine I can get just to play
>with at home.  It won't running anything mission-critical.  Just for
>learning.  I want CAE, SQL, RPG, tools, V4R5, ethernet, at least 8 gig of
>disk and in the PO5 software tier, as a minimum configuration.
>
>It needs to be able to get a software subscription, so I think that leaves
>out the 150, doesn't it?  The prices I've seen on the 170 & 250 seem 
>awfully
>high (around $8,000-9,000 configured as above) and the 270's are even worse
>(around $12,000).  It doesn't have to be new, just something I can upgrade
>to V5. There won't be more than two users on it, so memory is not critical,
>but I would like to be able to play with all the web serving tools, etc.
>
>The best quote I've gotten is for a 9406 model 600 (2129), configured as
>above and with 128 mg memory, for about $5,000.  Does that sound reasonable
>for such an older model?  Are there any other factors I should be
>considering?
>

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