Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server

Re:Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server by ianai on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:53PM (#33043023)

I thought you could buy old models off eBay like anything else? Though I’m guessing the software is still locked up.

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Re:Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server by alfiedotwtf on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:39PM (#33043278)

Maybe I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that the AS/400 boxes at work needed 3-phase power?

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Re:Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server by racingmars on Saturday October 01, 2022 @01:00AM (#33044028)

The ones I've seen don't, no. The AS/400 boxes were pretty much designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses to stick in a closet and forget about. You may be thinking of IBM mainframes, which typically require three-phase power, but can be convinced to work without it.

These days (and for quite a while), the boxes that run IBM i are the same POWER servers that can run AIX and Linux. Before the platforms consolidated, they were still POWER servers, it was just a different firmware between the "i Series" (ran OS/400) and "p Series" (ran AIX and Linux) POWER boxes.

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Re:Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:39PM (#33043657)

Yeah, hardware isn't the problem, it's the software licensing

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