17 Oct
2016
17 Oct
'16
3:18 p.m.
On Oct 17, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Jason Howe <jason at
smbfc.net> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
I?ve been on the lookout for IBM mainframes for a while. I did manage to acquire a fully
functional Multiprise 3000 that was taken out of service and stored. I was incredibly
lucky with that one as it was unmolested (it even came to me in its original IBM shipping
crate!). I learned about the 4331 a few years ago and I?d been asking if they were
interested in ?getting rid of it?. Every 6 months or so I would ask if they?d made a
decision about getting rid of it. Finally about 2 months ago I got an email saying that
they had decided to get rid of it. It?s been stored for a number of years even before I
found out about it but it has been stored properly. I still imagine that there?s going to
be a fair amount of work to get it running again. We?re still working out arranging
getting it shipped.
TTFN - Guy
Oh and did I mention that I?ve acquired (just need to move it) an IBM 4331 mainframe
including *all* of the peripherals (3340 disk drives + lots of packs, 1403 printer, IBM
tape drives, card reader/punch, 029 keypunch, manuals, terminals, etc, etc)?
TTFN - Guy
That seems incredibly cool. Can I ask how one comes by one of these and if they paid you
to take it away or vice versa?