2 May
2015
2 May
'15
12:36 p.m.
What a great score, and it sounds like practically new in crate as well!
Congratulations and enjoy! Someone with a complete system made a series of
Youtube videos of the entire IPL sequence and I have watched them many
times to great enjoyment ... For me, it will just have to be Hercules doing
the job, for now ... :O Looking forward to pictures!
Best,
Sean
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
Surprisingly little. ;-) However, given that they
don't support the
64-bit mode, IBM was pretty
aggressive about moving people to the new z series so the value of these
systems dropped
pretty quickly.
TTFN - Guy
On 5/2/15 12:19 PM, wulfman wrote:
what did you pay for a new machine ?
On 5/2/2015 12:06 PM, Guy Sotomayor 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.
TTFN - Guy