Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by grunthos » Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 10:09 AM UTC

Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]
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Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by floresmd » Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 11:27 AM UTC

Thanks for trip down memory lane. These machines were rock solid.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by 1MachineElf » Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 4:48 PM UTC

I wonder if this is how Oxide Computer is building their systems in 2022.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by lowken » Sat, Jul 30, 2022, 5:33 PM UTC

About three years id my software development career were detonated to AS/400 RPG programming. It was fun but I’m glad I moved on.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by nikau » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 1:05 PM UTC

1MachineElf wrote: post #3

I wonder if this is how Oxide Computer is building their systems in 2022.

Interesting to read some of the hype around 0xide, it seems like its just some software ontop of a blade system?

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by jgalt212 » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:11 PM UTC

nikau wrote: post #5

1MachineElf wrote: post #3

I wonder if this is how Oxide Computer is building their systems in 2022.

Interesting to read some of the hype around 0xide, it seems like its just some software ontop of a blade system?

Perhaps, but if their secret sauce produces a much better product, I'm not terribly concerned that the value-add is a software-based and not hardware-based.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by snowAbstraction » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

Thanks, this brought back some memories. I did an internship / co-op in software engineering at that site in Rochester while a student. They needed extra help so I worked a few evenings at 1.5 pay alongside the regular factory workers.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by GnarfGnarf » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

lowken wrote: post #4

About three years id my software development career were detonated to AS/400 RPG programming. It was fun but I’m glad I moved on.

Gasp! You poor soul :o) RPG (Report Program Generator) is the worst programming language on the face of the Earth. Its paradigm is the IBM 402 tabulator.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by ThinkBeat » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:44 PM UTC

These machines were amazing. Rock solid. Never crashed, never need someone to reboot it and if something went wrong it would call IBM and say it needed service and what components were impacted (if it knew).

In some companies these things were in a closet, under piles of other things and everyone had forgotten about its existence.

Then comes the IBM rep to fix it and there is confusion about its existence.

The operating system was genuinely interesting. I wish they had open sourced it.

They were not sexy, they didnt have games (actually a couple) did run much sofwtware you knwo about but that it did it was very good at.

Re: Inside an IBM AS/400 eSeries Factory [video]

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Post by doctor_eval » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 9:52 PM UTC

GnarfGnarf wrote: post #8

lowken wrote: post #4

About three years id my software development career were detonated to AS/400 RPG programming. It was fun but I’m glad I moved on.

Gasp! You poor soul :o) RPG (Report Program Generator) is the worst programming language on the face of the Earth. Its paradigm is the IBM 402 tabulator.

Thank you for clearing up my cognitive dissonance. I mean, how many people had jobs programming RPGs? How many people possibly played role playing games on AS/400?