Re: Anyone ever had an iSeries stolen?

[John Myers - MM <jmyersmm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

I feel for you, guy!  We keep ours behind several layers of locked doors 
and a pretty competent burglar alarm ... for us, that would be right up 
there with having a heart attack!

I seem to remember a story in the AS/400 media several years ago about an 
AS/400 owned by Daewoo Australia being stolen / deliberately damaged by 
vandals  ... the story used to be at 
http://www.as400.ibm.com/australia/daewoo.htm ... but IBM has since removed 
the page from the web site (see: 
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/199904/msg00085.html ).

I want to think that IBM has an indicator in its service database to 
indicate a stolen system ... place a service call on it, and the police 
show up with the CE?????  Anyone out there know if this is true?????

Here's an article about a stolen AS/400 spare parts ring ...

http://static.elibrary.com/m/midrangesystems/january191998/ibmfbifoilbrokersinstolenas400partsstingcompanybus/index.html

... just my $.02 on a slow day ...

John

At 12:37 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote:
> Our Model 800 was stolen last night. Anybody ever had this happen to them?
> I am guessing an iSeries is relatively hard to peddle.  I am wondering if
> there was ever a recovery if yours WAS stolen.
>
> We had a good backup and there is nothing on the thing except development
> code and test files but, we sure need something to write code on (it is on
> lease and IBM is working to get us a replacement).
>
> Just wondered if anyone had had this wonderful experience and whether they
> ever saw their iSeries again....
>
> BTW if you see a smoking deal on a model 800 and you have to pay shipping
> from Utah, let me know....
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software, Inc.
>
>
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