RE: Advice on Home Development AS400

Shipping would have been more that it was worth.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charly Jones [mailto:charly301@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Advice on Home Development AS400
> 
> 
> 
> 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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