AS400e 9426-170 Tower

[AS400_Newb]

Hello and thank you in advance. I am selling an IBM AS400e 9426-170 tower for the company I work for, and don't know anything about it. I have a potential buyer who asked me if it will IPL to OS/400 and I don't know how to answer their question. Could anyone help me with this?

[Vectorspace]

In layman's terms:

IPL basically means boot to the operating system successfully
OS/400 is the name of the operating system*

*I don't know enough about this part of things to know if OS/400 is the only OS it may have on it, or if it may have a different OS

[AS400_Newb]

Vectorspace Thanks for the reply. How would I know if it boots into the OS? I'm assuming the data portion has been wiped and I'm unsure of what IP it may have.

[Vectorspace]

AS400_Newb that I don't know I'm afraid, sorry

[Vectorspace]

AS400_Newb the potential buyer may be able to help you

[MFisher]

AS400_Newb the potential buyer may be able to help you

I was thinking that too. If you can attach a monitor and get a sign on screen. Does the seller have a user profile and password ?
If so, then perhaps the seller can talk through what they want to see for O/S etc...

[JonBoy]

Where is the system located? We may know someone locally who can take a look. When was it last operating? Are any terminals connected? etc. etc. Lovely as this Code400 list is it is not really a good place for such questions. Nearly all the hardware folks hang out at Midrange.com on the midrange list. There is also a Hobbyist group on Reddit or somewhere.

Of course you could contact Dr. Franken (https://www.frankeni.com) because what the good Doctor doesn't know about the system hardware and OS is not worth knowing.

[JonBoy]

P.S. Have you looked on eBay? Most model 170s seem to sell for well less than $1,000 - mostly because they are way too old to run a current (or even close to current) version of the Operating System. Selling it (as opposed to selling for electronic scrap) may be more trouble than it is worth.

[AS400_Newb]

Thank you all for your responses. I will take them in to consideration, especially asking the buyer about the IPL. The original buyer found another unit instead.

As for the electronic scrap idea, I am all for it, but my boss thinks we can make something off all our old equipment.