24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
7:11 a.m.
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.
IBM vigorously prosecutes these, so all machines sold on eBay will missing the LIC and
therefore inoperable. If you are somehow able to obtain one with the LIC intact you are
pirating a several million dollar product. The fines will not be pretty, assuming you
don't do years instead.