New find

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue May 11 21:45:45 1999

It was used by the City and Police department. John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu
> [mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner_at_u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Paul Thompson
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 10:50 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: New find
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> Was the AS400 used by the police or seized in some manner?
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> > > >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
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Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 21:45:45 BST