Extremely reliable, and extremely good at what they do.
They sure are expensive.
A lot more companies should adopt them.
Yet its going the way.
They run at scale at a lot of companies.
AS/400 / iSeries was awesome at least in the beginning.
I think it may be discontinued now.
Those machines were extremely reliable and well made.
Often companies who had bought one had no idea where it was.
Someone had set it up for them 7 years ago and after that nobody
paid attention.
Some places were better and did proper backups.
Which means stuff the right tape of a rotation into the slot.
They would also call home to tell IBM of a proper that is developing
and they would send a tech out to switch the parts prior to anyone
using it had any problem.
(and that is when the machines were sometimes hard to find.
One was buried in a closet, with tons of paper cases, paper archives.
stack buttom up to the floor.
I wish there was a way to learn mainframes that were accessible to mere mortals. Some toying around with a (almost certainly illicit) emulated copy of z/OS revealed an extremely complex, no doubt powerful, but entirely alien system that I'd have loved to get my head around, but alas, I could find no good resources.
Extremely reliable, and extremely good at what they do. They sure are expensive.
A lot more companies should adopt them.
Yet its going the way.
They run at scale at a lot of companies.
AS/400 / iSeries was awesome at least in the beginning.
I think it may be discontinued now.
Those machines were extremely reliable and well made.
Often companies who had bought one had no idea where it was. Someone had set it up for them 7 years ago and after that nobody paid attention.
Some places were better and did proper backups. Which means stuff the right tape of a rotation into the slot.
They would also call home to tell IBM of a proper that is developing and they would send a tech out to switch the parts prior to anyone using it had any problem.
(and that is when the machines were sometimes hard to find. One was buried in a closet, with tons of paper cases, paper archives. stack buttom up to the floor.