14 Oct
2007
14 Oct
'07
9:49 a.m.
On Sunday 14 October 2007, William Donzelli wrote:
If you are looking for a pre-S/390 big IBM, you have
very few
options. S/34 and S/36 are just about the only ones. S/1s are getting
pretty thin. You can mostly forget about finding a pre-S/390
mainframe, like a 9121, 9221, or 43xx. There are very few of these
left in the wild.
That said, I am still looking for an ES/9000 (9021, 9121, or 9221).
Or even 3090 or before.
ES/9000 boxes were showing at least once a month or so on eBay, about 4
years ago. I ended up picking one up two years ago, because it was
cheap ($9.99, and I was the only one bidding on it) and came with a
9343 disk box, and 3174-11L. I believe it's a 9221-191, which is an
amazingly small CPU - just a 10 or 12U rackmount box. I think I've got
all the software necessary to rebuild the HMC, but alas, didn't get an
HMC with it.
Pat
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