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> Most AS/400's are tucked in the back corner of a warehouse workshop closet, absolutely slathered in dust In the 1990s, my dad worked in a pharmaceutical fact
by skissane 3y ago
> Most AS/400's are tucked in the back corner of a warehouse workshop closet, absolutely slathered in dust
In the 1990s, my dad worked in a pharmaceutical factory. The whole factory was run by a single AS/400. Being the pharmaceutical industry, it was all very clean, no dust anywhere to be seen. Their server room, complete with raised floor, seemed rather barren – all it contained was the AS/400, a tape drive, and a couple of Netware servers. The operator sat in an adjoining room, able to observe the servers through a large glass window. In high school my dad got me an unpaid internship for two weeks in their IT department, but sadly they refused to give me a login to the AS/400. Closest I got, was they had a contractor writing RPG code in the cubicle next to mine, and he let me look over his shoulder.