24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
8:29 a.m.
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:11:06 -0500, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:53 AM, St+?phane Tsacas
<stephane.tsacas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220685200658
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220685200658>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP390G1.html
Do be advised that if you should obtain one of these,
it is illegal for you to operate it in any way. The microcode,
which IBM calls the
LIC or Licensed Internal Code, is licensed only for the use of the original purchaser and
only
on the specific machine and configuration as IBM delivered it. Any other usage by any
other party is unlicensed
and illegal.
Unless licensing arangements are made in advance by the origional owner!
I have a client with an old AS400 (I will call System 1) who paid the end of lease buyout
along with an additional
licensing fee to keep their old system's licensing intact and "bound to the
machine" when they upgraded to a new
and much bigger system. The origional plan was to sell it to a third pary "friend in
the businesss" after it served a
few more years duity as part of a disaster recovery plan, and was moed to the data center
of a second party.
Years latter the third party no longer wants/needs it so there has been talk of putting it
on eBay. In its case it is
only the current application and associated data that needs to be scrubed before it moves
on, not the OS.
I agree these exceptions are rare, but they do exsist. All and Never are both constants
not to be used lightly :)
The client in question has done this with their last 3 AS400's all purchased new from
IBM. I worked with leasing
companies back in the System 370 days as a 3rd pary CE, there was quite a bit of
transfering going on, the
company I worked for specialized in it.
Concidering the damage on this system I would expect this system to be Insurance Scrap
rescued just this side
of a crusher with no papers, the new owner would be prohibited from unlicensed comercial
use. Fair use should
premit a collector to play with it for their personal use.
If it does in fact still run, then it is of interest to a number of collectors as a
persional toy. Send the sheetmetal to a
bodyshop and let them Bondo it up, or wait for a clean cabnet to come along. If they can
rebuild a rusted wreck
and made it look like new again, cleaning that rack and door up will be a piece of cake.
It just takes TLC or a lot
of money :)
The other Bob