I happen to have a LOT of experience with old equipment :-)
1) If this guy gets $225 for that system I'll be shocked (and then another
Hun for freight!)
2) Even systems no where close to that age that are properly maintained
are having issues. Last week a customer's 720 lost a card and then a drive
and then another drive and then a tape drive and yah ugly. And it's ALWAYS
been in a nice cool room with clean power and IBM maintenance. That 9404
predates the 720 by several years. it might (or might not) do *NOTHIN.
3) It probably has disk in the MB range. Yes MB. And it won't go past V3R2
which is so old even *I* don't have any media for it.
4) Someone said tape. Uh yah. Now I did just get a 7208-012 in a recycle
pickup that would work with that machine. 5GB capacity!!
So let the guy keep it or sell it to someone who desperately needs it for
parts. :-)
- DrF
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John McKee wrote:
I saw this 9404 on eBay. Seller says "never been used" then "works
perfectly".
Is there ANY value to this thing?
Details on the configuration are sketchy, at best.
Wouldn't there be quite a few issues attempting to use this?
John McKee
LOL
Hard to tell, but my guess is it's a C, D or E series model
(C10,C20,C25,D10,D20,D25,E10,E20,E25). Many of these old systems did not
have network cards.
There's a good chance it won't IPL and even if it did, it's likely to go
into "needs a system password" mode.
Unless you are starting an AS/400 museum, this is junk. They should be
paying you to haul it away.
Keith
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