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The small business buys AS/400. IBM configures it. Drop it in a closet, forget about it. If something goes wrong it will call for help, before you even know
by ThinkBeat 6y ago
The small business buys AS/400.
IBM configures it.
Drop it in a closet, forget about it.
If something goes wrong it will call for help, before
you even know something was wrong.
It depends on what you define a small business as though.
Back in the days these were extremely reliable.
I have seen them in closets, covered with everything else you
would find in a closet.
Used by everyone day in and day out, nobody knew where it was
or what it was.
It also, in my opinon, had a nifty operating system with a lots of
inventive ideas when it came out.
I wish they had released the OS when they discontinued the line.
- snuxoll 6y agoAS/400 lives on today as IBM i, the lifeblood of my employer (our billing system) runs on a POWER8 box running i and while I’m not a huge fan I appreciate the thing staying running without any fuss for years at a time (IPLs for periodic system updates and just to make sure it still boots notwithstanding).
- battery423 6y agoThe last ~10 years, i have had rarely any real hardware issues. My current server is hardware from 2012. Someone said that just a few weeks ago 'Cars you buy today are all good enough. You will not buy a car today and it will rust tomorrow.' The only reason why i migrated my desktop pc to become my server, was the new DSLR which made Lightroom unusable due to the raw image size. I might even think, that Computer Hardware in general is very very reliable. Besides the capacitor plague issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague that gave systems a bad lifetime. And i have plenty of systems here which are running for years and have seen plenty of ubuntu upgrades as well.