ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS – THE SERVER HAS BEEN MOVED as of October 14, 2024. Due to the hurricane in FL it took a little longer than expected. It’s up and running now, and you should be able to access the box just as before. There may still be some brief outages as other things are being worked on, but the bulk of the effort is complete. Thanks for your patience.
TIMESHARE400 WILL BE CEASING OPERATIONS AS OF MAY 31, 2025. No new accounts will be opened and existing accounts will not be renewed or extended.
If you have an account that’s paid up beyond that date, we will contact you to arrange a refund for the pro-rated balance. If there should be a hardware problem in the interim (unlikely…) then the service will shut down at that point and pro-rated refunds will be issued.
We’ve been providing affordable access to AS400 development machine for over 20 years. But as I’ve said many times, it’s not exactly lucrative and it takes a fair amount of time… and now I have other things I want to focus on. Please be sure to back up your stuff to a save files and FTP the save files to yourself. I have disaster recovery backups, but if you come to me later (if you can find me…) and need access to those backups, it’ll cost you dearly. And there’s no guarantee that I’ll have it. So – as we all tell all of our friends – “do your backups and don’t come cryin’ to me if you didn’t”.
TimeShare400 provides affordable time sharing over the internet on a current model AS/400 (aka eServer iSeries; iSeries; System i; and, just plain “IBM i” for development, educational institutions, additional short term capacity increases and outsourcing. Our AS/400’s are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any PC connected to the internet.
The primary machine is running v7r1. We have other machines available at v5r4, v5r2 and even v4r5. Pricing for these older machines may differ. The v4r5 machine has the ability to compile all the way back to v3r2.
We no longer have any CISC machines. Despite the fact that they were over 30 years old and still worked just fine, they have been sent to the recycler. Or maybe a mooring in Boston harbor.
Remember the old days of ‘time sharing’ on computers? With the advent of the internet, time sharing makes more sense than ever. Rather than buy and maintain your own AS/400 or iSeries machine, now you can rent time and space at TimeShare400(tm) instead!
This service will be of interest to individual developers who need affordable time share access to an up-to-date AS/400 for creating and compiling their latest projects. It will also be of interest to companies looking to outsource their software development function. If the production machine is bogging down between the production activity and development, move development outside! Some companies may even want to outsource their entire AS/400 environment! Have TimeShare400 run your AS/400 operations entirely! Small companies that want to run AS/400 applications but don’t want to buy a machine can run their applications here!
For more information on the TimeShare400 service offerings, click here.
Our mission is to provide high quality, high availability, affordable service to companies and developers.
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