5 Sep
2005
5 Sep
'05
2:08 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jim stephens
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:25 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
Subject: Re: IBM 3725
Gil,
If you are in the enviable position of being able to acquire
and store this at all, you never know what you will run
across in the future. You might be albe to trade it to
someone with channel attached systems who could use it, or
Seems unlikely to me, and a lot of energy to get the 3725 to my space.
you might acquire a collection or processor which
would run it.
Not a chance. Don't have the space, power, time, etc.
If I'm not mistaken the 9121 on Ebay right now
would run it,
at least if the 9191 will do 370 mode. I believe that it has
XA mode and probably ESA mode capability and the 3725 might
not be operable on it, since you probably would not have
access to an OS due to license costs, on anything but the 370 arch.
Definitely. Maybe IBM would donate the license to our museum. ;)
Also, this makes one ask oneself, what hole did this crawl
out of, and is there more? Have you asked that?
Actually, no. I assume that it is from the main IT group. They have
occasionally sent small things my way. They know that I do not really have
the room to take this.
Maybe there
will be more to follow that would go with this, and you could
head off any further shipments by that department to the scrap heap.
Jim
Thanks for the ideas. I will ask where that came from. At least I could ask
them for first refusal on their disposals. I did rescue a 3275 a few weeks
back. It is considerably smaller - only about the size of a couple of
suitcases. Plus I have some terminals and emulation cards I could hook to
that just to show a typical configuration.
Gil
Yesterday I went by and there was a nice IBM 3725 front end
processor.
It is not anything attractive for a museum
visitor to look at. It
takes up a lot of valuable display space (roughly 2 racks &
about 5'
tall) for something kind of obscure (for most
people) and
not at all visually interesting.