It?s not only important to preserve the laptop(s) but to preserve them *with* the z/system. It?s an integral part of the machine. The z/system is a boat anchor without it. TTFN - Guy

This is a more recent z/Series machine; it may well be running Linux on the Support Element rather than OS/2. But Guy is 100% correct; all the support and configuration stuff there is critical to preserve exactly as-is. Recreating it from backups or reinstalling it from scratch is not for the faint-hearted. A lot of it is very arcane stuff, for IBM service engineers only; don't forget, there's stuff in there IBM charge big money for - enabling and disabling CPUs and memory. You want more CPU in your mainframe? You pay IBM $50k or whatever and they send an engineer round to turn it on... ok it can be done remotely too these days but point taken; there's a lot of stuff in there that's critical, undocumented, specific to the individual machine, and never supposed to be touched by anyone outside IBM... Mike On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:09 AM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote: -- http://www.corestore.org 'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'

There is also appears to be a 2107 (DS8100) in there, but it looks like all the drives have been pulled. That may be recoverable more easily... What was the price tag on all of this stuff? ________________________________________ From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Cindy Croxton [sales at elecplus.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 2:04 PM To: jwsmail at jwsss.com; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: 3480 pictures There appears to be a Z system in the photos. Image035.jpg is a photo showing the open system bay, and the HMC laptop. It is beyond critical that that laptop be carefully preserved and handled, as that will be the difference between junk and possibly turning it on and running it again. The 3490 numbers refer to the tape library in the image025.jpg. Please make sure that Dave McGuire has seen this before they destroy anything, as he is making a serious effort to restore a couple of mainframes. I think his current system is contemporary with the mainframe hiere. The 3174-1 is almost certainly a channel attached unit, probably with bus / tag to this unit. I don't know of a conversion to run the 3174-1's off anything but copper, but there may be escon boxes to be preserved that do this if it isn't copper bus / tag cable sets. I'd love a couple of coax terminals but not the entire lot if possible. I have a couple of 3174-63's that one or two would go nicely with for Hercules use. Thanks Jim Thanks, Jim. I have let them know to preserve the laptop, and asked for a price for the system. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus