RE: Model 170 for Personal Development

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

My cable bill is $62.60/month.  That's for cable TV, internet, etc.  And 
my wife uses the internet more than I do.
My point is this, do you spend more on your TV viewing than on furthering 
your career?
Here's a radical idea.  Since most people plan on paying the cable or 
satellite pig for all time, why not lease an i5 for home use?  Perhaps you 
can get it for about the same amount as your cable bill.  And the beauty 
of leasing is that when the new hardware comes out it's a simple matter of 
adjusting your lease versus the pain of a buy decision.  And the way 
computers are going, you might even find you're adjusting your lease 
downwards for a better, faster machine.  We've had that happen at work.

Hey, your lease payments might even be cheaper that what you pay your 
credit card company for that ebay'ed iseries.  Providing you make only 
your montly minimum to your credit card company, or some such thing.

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Mark,

Do you read minds ... LOL.  Yes, besides being able to
do personal development at home I would also like to
learn more "system" stuff like installs, IPLing, etc.

There are some smaller shops in the area that use
one-man "contractors" and if things get rough where
I'm currently working it would be nice to have a 
broader background. 

And last but not least - I love this box and just GOT
to have one!  As with anything, it tends to boil down
to dollars and cents ;-)

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark S. Waterbury [mailto:mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Model 170 for Personal Development
> 
> Hi, Terry:
> 
> You may want to check out www.timeshare400.com and/or 
> www.netshare400.com -- they both offer "time-sharing" where 
> you can simply telnet into an AS/400 and you get your own 
> userID and disk space, etc., and it is only about $10 per 
> month, and they have ALL the software development tools, 
> etc., all properly licensed, etc. and they maintain it all 
> for you (keeping up with PTFs etc.)
> 
> Unless of course you want to get a machine because you want 
> to learn how to IPL, how to do back-ups, how to load the OS 
> and other software, etc. ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark S. Waterbury
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