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IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T THROW IT OUT!An AS/400 will keep going for years, without anything but routine maintenance, and even if you need to add more software, you can still get it for fairly old boxes.
Case in point: when our D02 died, it was somewhere over a decade old. How many other systems can you say that about? Up until that day, every new QuestView release was available in a CISC version that would run as far back as V2R3, as well as a RISC version that would run as far back as V3R7, even if it contained features that were only applicable to later OS releases. (The floor for new QuestView releases is now V4R2.)
With our 40s and 510, we still have boxes nearly a decade old still in use; the 510 is in CONSTANT use. The 400s have outlasted at least 3 generations of WinDoze workstations and at least a generation of WinDoze servers.
How often is it that you can buy a computer ONCE, and not have to worry about it for a decade?
-- JHHL
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