OS/400 V4R3 installation CDs

Hi all,



Long time lurker, first time writing here.



Yesterday, I became the proud owner of a Model 170 in fairly good condition (IMO). Bought from a really nice retired gentleman who used to work as an IT technician on IBM i hardware, and who came to deliver the machine and help me set it up in my home network and connect to it. The system came with a clean licensed install of V4R3. As I understood from him, he restored the system from a QIC backup. I also got a 5250 terminal box and an IBM keyboard, and in a couple of days will receive PCMCIA 5250 cards bought from ebay in the US.



I’m a software engineer with almost 20 years of experience in about half a dozen programming languages, but who’s new to AS/400 and has been learning on and off for the past year using the great pub400.



As I live in Germany, the system came with the interface in German. While I’m learning the language and debating using that as an extra excuse to practice the language (and slowly reading Holger Scherer’s Kurs für Einsteiger), but still want to learn and be able to install the OS from scratch, since one of the things I want to try is replacing the HDDs with BlueSCSI Ultra.



I was wondering if anyone in the community has V4R3 CDs or ISOs laying around who’s willing to sell them, or sell CD-R copies or even provide ISOs for download. I’m willing to pay for the hassle of making the ISOs and uploading them somewhere.



Kind Regards,

Ali Mualla