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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by nl on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:17PM (#25339092)
IBM "Midrange", aka AS/400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i

They were an interesting - but dead - sideline of computing evolution. I never used one, but they had a interesting object-based (instead of file based) operating system.

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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by janosett on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:47PM (#25339399)
A friend used one of these (the shorter models) as a coffee table -- I distinctly remember how hard it was to move the big, dense metal cube in and out of his room!
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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by neurostimulant on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:24AM (#25343121)
My only experience on them was interacting with some API hosted in an AS/400 via FTP protocol. Felt like I was going back to the 90s.
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