3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
10:21 a.m.
On Monday 03 December 2007, Richard wrote:
In article
<e1d20d630712030817k180d6667od2a410b9cb7152f2 at mail.gmail.com>,
"William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Not only that but when you do find packs/heads/etc. do you want to
wear them out by just tinkering around?
There will come a point where the only way you can make these older
machines work is to remanufacture parts for them. Now there's enough
of a market for car enthusiasts that people service that demand, but
I don't know if there will ever be a market for all the oddball
technology in old computers to support such an aftermarket service.
Then there's the power needs. An RL01 requires a helluva lot more
power to run on a regular basis than an RL01 emulator connected to a
PC and the MTBF is much, much higher with the emulator.
I think that an RL01/RL02 + a small 11/23 or 11/03 actually takes quite
a bit less power than most dual-socket, dual-core Xeon servers do these
days...
Of course, an RM0[235] or RP0[3-7] is a different matter...
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
To some,
I daresay, using a modern display on a classic machine
borders on heresy, like using a converter and a modern disk
instead of an RP03,
At some point, however, it starts to make sense. For these old 14"
beasts, new/nice packs and heads are starting to get hard to find -
some very hard. I have been looking for several types of IBM packs
in new/nice condition for years now, with no luck. Same with the
heads.