How many days will it take EyeMWing to tear down a single IBM AS400 server? - Update with answer!

EyeMWing

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Pic (the big one, for reference. This model is constructed differently from the one pictured there, despite being an IBM AS400 as well)

I've put in 9hrs over 3 days so far, and so far I've recovered for recycling: 1 SLA battery, a terabyte worth of assorted SCSI drives, 200 pounds of steel, 15lbs of aluminium, several PCBs of various types and description, 1 massive blower unit (which I'm still stripping down to it's component pieces), 3lbs of cabling.

It's to the point where it's now waist high - I've already pulled out all the modules on this bottom tier, and only the power supply and the module socket board (and whatever associated logic there is with that) and anything that I can't see because it's built between the massive sheets of steel remains. I can actually lay it down on it's side all by myself now.

It still weighs an estimated 200lbs.

Oh, and two of us BIG dudes (200+lbs each) stood on top of the top cover assembly for the chassis and jumped up and down - it didn't fvcking collapse.

Update:
It took exactly 1 week and 1 day - which I compute to be more than 15 man-hours of work.

Funny story, just as I finished, I gave a victory grunt and heaved the gutted chassis over my head, brass screws and dust raining down upon me. At that very moment, a rare HotChick(TM) appeared from the elevator behind me and witnessed my manliness tossing it into the scrap pile. Apparently, this impressed her, because she didn't leave my side until the end of the day.
 

BrokenVisage

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Don't mention that damn program :p I'm currently loading the client onto like 20 damn lappies for training right now.. very repetitive and boring.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Don't mention that damn program :p I'm currently loading the client onto like 20 damn lappies for training right now.. very repetitive and boring.

Solution: Send me your server. You won't have to deal with the software anymore.
 

waggy

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give me a bat and 20 minutes. it will be down.

I HATED teh as/400 seires. a major pain in the rear at times and crappy at others. the extra large green ones really sucked man i hated those.
 

spidey07

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Are you selling it? Its worth a pretty penny.

Plenty of enterprises still run on AS/400.
 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: werk
$1, Bob

No, we get 60 cents a pound for aluminium. So it's like... $9 at a minimum. Steel is worth something, too.


You're going to spend days working on something that will get you about $20?
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: werk
$1, Bob

No, we get 60 cents a pound for aluminium. So it's like... $9 at a minimum. Steel is worth something, too.


You're going to spend days working on something that will get you about $20?

the satisfaction of tearing it apart and knowing it is going to burn is enough.
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Are you selling it? Its worth a pretty penny.

Plenty of enterprises still run on AS/400.

Yep, our sister company for one. I don't like the things, myself.
 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: werk
$1, Bob

No, we get 60 cents a pound for aluminium. So it's like... $9 at a minimum. Steel is worth something, too.


You're going to spend days working on something that will get you about $20?

the satisfaction of tearing it apart and knowing it is going to burn is enough.


lol, it was that bad?
 

Britboy

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: spidey07
Are you selling it? Its worth a pretty penny.

Plenty of enterprises still run on AS/400.

Yep, our sister company for one. I don't like the things, myself.

We run ours on it, well most if it anyway
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: werk
$1, Bob

No, we get 60 cents a pound for aluminium. So it's like... $9 at a minimum. Steel is worth something, too.


You're going to spend days working on something that will get you about $20?

It's not about the money, it's fun. Period.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: waggy
give me a bat and 20 minutes. it will be down.

I HATED teh as/400 seires. a major pain in the rear at times and crappy at others. the extra large green ones really sucked man i hated those.

HAHA NO. First day, since I didn't have any of the correct tools, I just beat on it with a slege. I got NOWHERE.

Originally posted by: spidey07
Are you selling it? Its worth a pretty penny.

Plenty of enterprises still run on AS/400.

No. Harley Davidson donated two of them, along with 11ty other PCs. Neither AS400 was in working order. They still have one left, though.

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
So? Is it any wonder why at IBM they affectionately refer to to it as 'Big Iron'?

It's steel, dammit.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I don't care how long. I'm more interested in why.

Essentially, I volunteer my time to a campus organization that refurbishes old computers and puts them back out into nonprofit orgs or other needy institutions. When we get donations that are essentially worthless (like these, which were nonworking when they left Harley and were then pushed out the back of the shipping truck by "accident") - they get torn down to their individual components and sold for scrap.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: spidey07
alright.

But depending on the model it could be worth between 10 and 150K.

Iiiiiiinteresting. We still have that second one left (though it's decidedly smaller) :p

It's nonworking (can't tell WTF is wrong, since we can't actively work on it due to the fact that it isn't 120v and maintainence won't let us have any REAL electricity in our end of the building) and has the exterior trim pieces knocked off.
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: waggy
give me a bat and 20 minutes. it will be down.

I HATED teh as/400 seires. a major pain in the rear at times and crappy at others. the extra large green ones really sucked man i hated those.

HAHA NO. First day, since I didn't have any of the correct tools, I just beat on it with a slege. I got NOWHERE.


ohh i want to beat on it!

not a suprise actually. they are pretty thick and heavy. and they have the green paint. that makes it harder. wich is why the army uses it.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: waggy
give me a bat and 20 minutes. it will be down.

I HATED teh as/400 seires. a major pain in the rear at times and crappy at others. the extra large green ones really sucked man i hated those.

HAHA NO. First day, since I didn't have any of the correct tools, I just beat on it with a slege. I got NOWHERE.


ohh i want to beat on it!

not a suprise actually. they are pretty thick and heavy. and they have the green paint. that makes it harder. wich is why the army uses it.

This one's black. Which makes it even harder. Which is why the air force uses it :p
 

Brazen

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Are you selling it? Its worth a pretty penny.

Plenty of enterprises still run on AS/400.

Well, it WAS worth a pretty penny. Not sure about the new ones, but is supposed to be bullet-proof and able to withstand like a 20 foot drop.