RE: model 250

["Andy Youens" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Software subscription is now available for the 150, not sure about the
250.


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Andy Youens
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@worldnet.att.net]
|Sent: 18 February 2002 14:51
|To: midrange-l@midrange.com
|Subject: Re: model 250
|
|The 150 and now the 250 remain a strange box by IBM standards. They are
|only marketed by "select" groups of folks. The machine comes
|"shrink wrapped" with certain packages of software. This remains the
|only
|machine that has NO upgrade path and no software upgrade. If you want a
|current version of OS/400, you are required to start all over on
|software
|purchases.
|
|
|Jim Franz wrote:
|
|> IBM made an announcement of special model 250 packaging.
|> Yet the latest IBM eServer iSeries catalog failed to even list the
|> 250 as a current system, and only was mentioned to buy
|> memory & disk parts with the model 170.
|> Is this machine about to go out to pasture?
|> I can see the 270 and 8xx is main stuff, but leave iSeries "entry"
system
|> out of the catalog looks suspicious.
|>
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