RE: What to do with my 170?

Host you own e-mail domain?  Use as a file and print server for your family?  
Try out all sorts of stuff that you would not do on a production server.  Does 
it have a tape drive to backup you personal stuff?  Set up as a development 
host and change a couple of bucks a year to cover you inet connection?

Develop some application to sell.

Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.



From: Haase, Justin C.
Sent: Sun 5/7/2006 2:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: What to do with my 170?


Hi Folks,

I've come across a model 170 2290 (73/20 CPW) with 382 MB of RAM and
about 50 GB disk over 10 arms, RAID-5.  It's licensed for OS/400 V5R1,
as well as WDS and Query on the system.  It's long off IBM HW
maintenance and SWMA.

Everything works - has a bunch of WAN ports and two twinax bricks, two
ethernet ports... I'm just trying to figure out what I should do with
this thing other than heat my basement!  I've done some looking at SETI,
but I can't seem to locate any source that'll run on it anymore.  I
don't want to leave it sit not running and unplugged, because I'd end up
needing the system password after a while, and I have **NO IDEA** where
that is!

Thoughts?