If you'd like to try, there is a way to get a free user account at pub400.com. That got me interested enough that I set out to get my own AS/400.
It took me literally years until I stumbled upon an affordable machine with licenses. The machine I got is decades old and was decommissioned in 2008, after a long life.
IBM created something revolutionary and did everything to keep the public away from it.
The team behind it also tried to keep the rest of IBM away from it, for fear that The Suits From Armonk would come in and ruin their product and their culture.
It took me literally years until I stumbled upon an affordable machine with licenses. The machine I got is decades old and was decommissioned in 2008, after a long life.
IBM created something revolutionary and did everything to keep the public away from it.