12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
11:56 p.m.
On 11 Aug 2012, at 23:08, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Oh gawd, yes. We, the private AIX non-corp users,
aren't worth IBM's white-
shirt-and-sincere-tie time. I went around and around fruitlessly for weeks
to buy hardware and media from them. Just take my money, I said!
You can't write company songs about selling to a single Joe Bloggs... right?
So I gave up and bought both the server and later the
AIX media secondhand.
The only "new" AIX I ever got was with my Apple Network Server. Otherwise, I
just have eBay media sets.
A bunch of us lucked out in the UK and found a guy selling cheap (talking 200 GBP) POWER5
9111-285s on eBay... otherwise I'd never have a new one either :) I think I know about
6 people that all bought one.
Similarly I have 4.3.3, 5.3 and 7.1 and all are surplus media sets bought as
new-not-required from eBay.
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