cbc
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Hey there,
My name is Clay Carley, and I live in Northern CA. I'm now in my mid 30's but have been around computers since I was 3 or so (Quasar QDP-80 I believe, with a very stylish for the time Adds terminal). My Dad being a computer science professor, has always encouraged me to work with computers. Of course, being in the early 80's, my Dad changed jobs a lot, and somewhere I have a flyer from Computerland, advertising the new IBM XT, as well as stating "Clay Carley III." as the new manager. I'm the 4th, by the way.
So I was brought here by searching for info on a new to me machine; an IBM AS/400e 2406-170 which I hope to get running and learn how to operate. I've got experience with DOS (PC and MS), (old) windows, and currently run Linux on my personal machines, but this is a whole 'nother ball of wax. In the late '90's, my Dad was working for a company who ran an AS/400, and his task was to get it to talk to a check scanning machine.
I've had fun in the past with some Digital machines, an AlphaServer 1200 and a Digital Personal Workstation 433. The 1200 sadly got recycled; it was a great machine but used about $30/month for power. I still have the DPW box, and am hoping to pass it on to someone who is interested in it.
Currently I work at a local ISP; Sonic.net in Santa Rosa, CA. Turns out we have at least one customer in our datacenter who runs an AS/400, and we have another customer who has a "spare" S/390 in an office suite here. I had the pleasure of being present when IBM delivered the S/390 and installed it.
Well I guess that's me; you can see in my profile that I have several other hobbies as well. Not sure how I have time for it all, but here in CA we make time I guess!
Clay
My name is Clay Carley, and I live in Northern CA. I'm now in my mid 30's but have been around computers since I was 3 or so (Quasar QDP-80 I believe, with a very stylish for the time Adds terminal). My Dad being a computer science professor, has always encouraged me to work with computers. Of course, being in the early 80's, my Dad changed jobs a lot, and somewhere I have a flyer from Computerland, advertising the new IBM XT, as well as stating "Clay Carley III." as the new manager. I'm the 4th, by the way.
So I was brought here by searching for info on a new to me machine; an IBM AS/400e 2406-170 which I hope to get running and learn how to operate. I've got experience with DOS (PC and MS), (old) windows, and currently run Linux on my personal machines, but this is a whole 'nother ball of wax. In the late '90's, my Dad was working for a company who ran an AS/400, and his task was to get it to talk to a check scanning machine.
I've had fun in the past with some Digital machines, an AlphaServer 1200 and a Digital Personal Workstation 433. The 1200 sadly got recycled; it was a great machine but used about $30/month for power. I still have the DPW box, and am hoping to pass it on to someone who is interested in it.
Currently I work at a local ISP; Sonic.net in Santa Rosa, CA. Turns out we have at least one customer in our datacenter who runs an AS/400, and we have another customer who has a "spare" S/390 in an office suite here. I had the pleasure of being present when IBM delivered the S/390 and installed it.
Well I guess that's me; you can see in my profile that I have several other hobbies as well. Not sure how I have time for it all, but here in CA we make time I guess!
Clay
You're definitely right, it's a different beast when you get into these mainframe based technologies. I was thinking there was perhaps an as/400 emulator out there also to screw things up in but the one I'm thinking of was probably Hercules which from some quick googling looks like it does other OSes like os/390 or 360 (and MVS from what I recall running on it) but perhaps not 400.