Re:Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993
by HankB99 on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:19AM
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> There were some drawbacks, but Id love to have one to play with.
One of the shops I worked at had an AS/400 and related equipment sitting on a pallet by the elevator bank. I could have had it for free.
Drawbacks? I had no way to transport a pallet of computer equipment. And IIRC it required 3 phase power so care and feeding would have been well beyond my means. (But I still have and occasionally use the IBM Model M that they were going to discard and another time I carried a retired Sun pizza box home on the train.)
One of the shops I worked at had an AS/400 and related equipment sitting on a pallet by the elevator bank. I could have had it for free.
Drawbacks? I had no way to transport a pallet of computer equipment. And IIRC it required 3 phase power so care and feeding would have been well beyond my means. (But I still have and occasionally use the IBM Model M that they were going to discard and another time I carried a retired Sun pizza box home on the train.)