Re:Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet
by Moru on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:15PM
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I learned programming on some old AS/400 in school. The server was standing at the local state office and we had an ISDN connection there from school. I remember the manual stack, it was a couple of meters in the shelf.
We used 286 computers with windows and a terminal emulator that converted the control buttons to enter.
The server was shared with the states programmers as their test server so we had to wait our turn for compiling and running code. Could be a good 20 minutes to get the output of the program on the printer sometimes :-)
Tried getting a job as an RPG programmer in some companies in the area but all that was about to buy one ended up going with PC's instead. And the ones that had an AS/400 decommissioned it so didn't need programmers. But I did some work for the state, like fixing the y2k bug with birth year in the database :-)
We used 286 computers with windows and a terminal emulator that converted the control buttons to enter.
The server was shared with the states programmers as their test server so we had to wait our turn for compiling and running code. Could be a good 20 minutes to get the output of the program on the printer sometimes :-)
Tried getting a job as an RPG programmer in some companies in the area but all that was about to buy one ended up going with PC's instead. And the ones that had an AS/400 decommissioned it so didn't need programmers. But I did some work for the state, like fixing the y2k bug with birth year in the database :-)