New find

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_athenet.net>
Date: Sun May 9 10:50:29 1999

Was the AS400 used by the police or seized in some manner?

I purchased some DSSI drives which were originally used by a municipality,
including its police department. Some interesting information was left on
the disk. All they had to do was use the ERASE program in the DSSI
firmware and they could have sent a completely blank disk. I did this for
them.

I don't believe that Linux is supported on the AS400. In fact, AIX
probably isn't supported if this is a CISC AS400, which it probably is
judging from its price and age. If it's RISC I believe AIX still requires
a pricey firmware change.

Paul

On Sun, 9 May 1999, LordTyran wrote:

>
> > >Today at a Police auction I picked up IBM AS/400 model 9309 for $25
> for the > >rack and other parts. Not sure when I will be able to fire it
> up. > > Very, very cool sounding. Two questions, does it have the OS,
> and secondly > how hard is it to get the OS for one? The AS/400's sound
> rather > interesting. > Eh? OS isn't hard to find... depending on what
> you want to run on it.. Linux is free, and is stable from what I've
> heard..
>
> Kevin
>
>
Received on Sun May 09 1999 - 10:50:29 BST