On Sat, 2 May 2015 13:57:53 -0700
Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
On May 2, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Guy Sotomayor
<ggs at shiresoft.com>
wrote:
I just received my first IBM mainframe. It's an IBM Multiprise
3000 model 7060-H30. It's a a P/390 class machine. It has 6 18GB
drives and 3 9 GB drives. I'll be posting some pictures on my
website soon.
Getting it home was interesting since the freight companies can't
made the drive from the main roads to my house (curse of living out
in the country) so I had to run down to the shipping depot (about
60 miles away) and have them load up the pallet into the bed of my
pickup truck which meant getting it out without a forklift was
going to be interesting! It wasn't until I got home that I
realized that it was packed in the original crate from IBM! It
even had the original uncrating instructions stuffed into the
crate...which wasn't particularly useful!
Overall it appears to be in really good shape. There were also a
number of other "goodies" in the crate including some new in the
bag bus-and-tag cables.
It'll be a bit before I can power it up and see what's there
because I have to find an SVGA monitor and a PS/2 keyboard and
mouse.
I just uploaded some pictures to my site at:
http://www.shiresoft.com/new-shop/Shiresoft/IBM_Mainframe.html
<http://www.shiresoft.com/new-shop/Shiresoft/IBM_Mainframe.html>.
It looks terrific! Hope it runs as well as it looks :)
How did you manage to get it out of your truck w/o a fork lift???
Lyle
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