Re: OS/400 V5

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You could get a S/34 as small as 13.5MB as I recall with a single 8"
diskette drive and 32K of memory. There may have even been a 16K
machine. My 'Work Bench' was a 64K/27MB Machine, now there's absolutely
more of all the above in the retired PC sitting on top of it!

 - Larry

"Westdorp, Tom" wrote:
> 
> IIRC 64mb was the smallest amount of S/34 DASD.  They had the piccolo drives
> that later were the base internal drive in the S/38.  You could get one or
> two in the original S/34.  I started with 128mb/128kb system, then had to
> get the expansion chassis and panels and grow to 256mb/256kb system.  Ran a
> $4M property and casualty insurance company on it.  24 years ago.  Great
> system in its day, but...  Still one running, eh?  I see an IBM
> commercial... Too bad IBM doesn't.

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Larry Bolhuis           | Cogito ergo mercari iSeries 
Arbor Solutions, Inc.   |
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lbolhuis@arbsol.com     |        #3  1951-2001
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