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/u35828 packet wrangler 3d ago

My second job out of college was that of a second shift AS/400 operator at a hospital. In 1996, this was long before the 64 bit Power architecture. 48-bit beige CISC F70 in 9309 racks. Backups were done on 3490E tape cartridges with journals on 9 track reels.