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I thought you could buy old models off eBay like anything else? Though I’m guessing the software is still locked up.
by ianai 4y ago
I thought you could buy old models off eBay like anything else? Though I’m guessing the software is still locked up.
- alfiedotwtf 4y agoMaybe I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that the AS/400 boxes at work needed 3-phase power?
- racingmars 4y agoThe ones I've seen don't, no. The AS/400 boxes were pretty much designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses to stick in a closet and forget about. You may be thinking of IBM mainframes, which typically require three-phase power, but can be convinced to work without it. These days (and for quite a while), the boxes that run IBM i are the same POWER servers that can run AIX and Linux. Before the platforms consolidated, they were still POWER servers, it was just a different firmware between the "i Series" (ran OS/400) and "p Series" (ran AIX and Linux) POWER boxes.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoYeah, hardware isn't the problem, it's the software licensing