28 Mar
2012
28 Mar
'12
10:49 p.m.
On 03/28/2012 09:54 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 6:27 PM -0700 3/28/12, mc68010 wrote:
...neither of which are impossible to find. Tough, but not impossible.
This is kind of cool. No bidders with with a few
hours left. If it was
only closer.
http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/auction/view?auc=695038
That vintage right ? It's hard to tell anymore.
No hard drives, no software. I think it's vintage, as in early 90's, but
not sure. My experience with
IBM gear is nearly non-existant.
This is an IBM Multiprise 3000, which made its debut in, I think,
2000 or so. It's basically an S/390 G5 (no connection to the PowerPC
processor of the same name) with a scaled-down I/O subsystem. It can be
either uniprocessor or dual. They're really nice machines, very compact
for a real mainframe, and quite fast as long as you don't do extremely
heavy I/O...basically it's got the same I/O as the rest of the computing
world, which is wimpy and puny when compared to real mainframes. These
machines are well-suited for S/390 software development for this reason.
They're popping up everywhere nowadays due to the IBM mainframe world
having gone 64-bit several years ago, and the subsequent de-supporting
of the 31-bit stuff. (no I didn't mean "32" ;))
I have one of these machines, and I think I have at least 99% of
what's required to bring it up, including some of the very hard-to-find
software and documentation, but I've not yet spent the time to attack
it. If anyone can help with that, please contact me privately. This is
something I want very much to be able to do.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA