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My sample is of a couple of hundred AS/400 machines. This was prior to the rebranding to iSeries They were used for accounting, logistics, and point of sales s

My sample is of a couple of hundred AS/400 machines. This was prior to the rebranding to iSeries They were used for accounting, logistics, and point of sales systems at different companies. Common for nearly all was that they lacked any IT department or even a sole tech geek. Nothing is perfect. it makes sense there might be some lemons around but from my experience they were the most reliable platform I have ever been in contact with. in different companies used mostly for accounting, logistics, and some POS systems that were entirely lacking any IT department or even the odd tech geek.

aerostable_slug 4y ago
>in different companies used mostly for accounting, logistics, and some POS systems that were entirely lacking any IT department or even the odd tech geek. I saw this as well, at least in a way. As a contractor a few weeks out of college, I worked at a regional telco provider that had an AS/400 used for accounting etc. While a reasonably tech-ey firm (they were an ISP as well as providing pager service, frame relay, and other fun relics of a another era), nobody really knew how the AS/400 worked so they were a little wary of letting the new guy use it. It hadn't ever gone down to anyone's recollection, but they were pretty sure that with the staff they had they wouldn't know how to quickly bring it back up if things went pear-shaped.