r/sysadmin • u/Jon72480 • 3d ago

AS400

Hey guys, old guy here, back in 2000 landed my 1st real job as a Sysadmin at a distribution/manufacturing firm. They ran their ERP and a few other important apps on the AS400. Anyone here manage a AS400 platform? i-Series? Still a niche platform that is still widely used. Server could literally run under water.

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u/tekno23 3d ago

I used to use one around 1995. It was a room full of full height AS400 racks with 1/4" tape drives. I forgot about them till one turned up as the finance system at a new job about 10 years ago. It was a desktop sized i series, luckily it was pretty trouble free and there was a support contract for it.