The AS/400: A 37-Year-Old Dog That Loves To Learn New Tricks
June 23, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan
In the early years of the AS/400 platform, when we were new to the IT business and there were so many different datacenter computing platforms and even more operating systems, we didn’t think about the longevity of the AS/400 and its System/38 and System/36 predecessors. It was a new platform with a heritage, a system with both a past and a future out as far as we could see with our own youth and limited experience.
But over the years, in the early 2000s in particular, we started to keep track of the years the AS/400 was around and celebrated …
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