An old AS/400 System

[DougieFresh4U]

Some one was trying to give me an old (1986) AS/400 today. Very heavy. What would/could any one do with such a machine?

[jrusso2]

I have heard that people run websites on them. Not sure of the technical aspects of doing it.

[Zimmer]

Run a worldwide Warranty System, Payroll, Accounting.... etc. :)

[RiceMonster]

Bah, I hate AS/400.

Write useless COBOL programs on it. I can't think of any use for it, really. I guess run a website, as I think you can run apache on it. This site (http://tethys.sealinc.org/) runs on an AS/400.

[t0p]

That was a pretty serious machine in its day. A minicomputer. According to Wikipedia they had 48-bit processors, and you can use C, C++, Pascal, Perl, Python and Java (among other languages). Check it out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i). I reckon if I was offered one, I'd take it. I'm sure there are plenty of tasks it could do for you.

[clonne4crw]

My dad works at IBM. He used to build those things. He gave me a ton of shirts with the AS/400 and OS/2 logos.

[koleoptero]

Some one was trying to give me an old (1986) AS/400 today. Very heavy. What would/could any one do with such a machine?

Use it to defend your home if the need arises?

[yabbadabbadont]

AS/400's run an awful lot of RPG (RPG/400 actually) code in my experience. At least they do in the banking industry. Modern versions of that hardware are what is used by a very large number of banks for their nightly processing.

[dragos240]

Specs?