7 Oct
2015
7 Oct
'15
6:59 p.m.
My Chicago buddy has an entire IBM 3480 system, server and storage. The
storage rack has 64 hard drives. He has the tapes that go with it.
Email me if you are interested. I can get PN and pics. Will palletize and
ship or you can pick up. No, it is not a freebie J
Cindy Croxton
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7 Oct
7 Oct
8:56 p.m.
Something does not quite add up. A 3480 is a tape subsystem, not a CPU
("server") - it would not have have disk drives.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3480_Family
JRJ
On 10/7/2015 8:59 PM, Cindy Croxton wrote:
My Chicago buddy has an entire IBM 3480 system, server
and storage. The
storage rack has 64 hard drives. He has the tapes that go with it.
Email me if you are interested. I can get PN and pics. Will palletize and
ship or you can pick up. No, it is not a freebie J
Cindy Croxton
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9:18 p.m.
Sounds like they may have confused the A22 Control Unit with a CPU?
Although that doesn't explain any HDDs ... all the A22 pictures I've found
show it having just a 5.25" floppy drive. In line with the confusion theme,
perhaps the "HDDs" are really tape cartridges?
If the price is right, maybe it could be a fun peripheral project for one
of the guys with the Multiprise systems? :O
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
Something does not quite add up. A 3480 is a tape
subsystem, not a CPU
("server") - it would not have have disk drives.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3480_Family
JRJ
On 10/7/2015 8:59 PM, Cindy Croxton wrote:
My Chicago buddy has an entire IBM 3480 system,
server and storage. The
storage rack has 64 hard drives. He has the tapes that go with it.
Email me if you are interested. I can get PN and pics. Will palletize
and
ship or you can pick up. No, it is not a freebie
J
Cindy Croxton
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10:12 p.m.
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH3420B.html
Click on the pic to enlarge. He said there is a tall grey cabinet, a tall
black cabinet, and various shorter cabinets. The black cabinet has the hdd,
I think. It was just de-installed last week, fully working. They have to
wipe or remove the hdd. I can get the PN and pics of everything tomorrow.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay Jaeger
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 10:57 PM
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Subject: Re: IBM 3480 server and storage
Something does not quite add up. A 3480 is a tape subsystem, not a CPU
("server") - it would not have have disk drives.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3480_Family
JRJ
On 10/7/2015 8:59 PM, Cindy Croxton wrote:
My Chicago buddy has an entire IBM 3480 system, server
and storage. The
storage rack has 64 hard drives. He has the tapes that go with it.
Email me if you are interested. I can get PN and pics. Will palletize and
ship or you can pick up. No, it is not a freebie J
Cindy Croxton
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8 Oct
8 Oct
10:42 a.m.
From: Cindy Croxton
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 7:00 PM
My Chicago buddy has an entire IBM 3480 system, server
and storage. The
storage rack has 64 hard drives. He has the tapes that go with it.
Email me if you are interested. I can get PN and pics.
Will palletize and
ship or you can pick up. No, it is not a freebie J
Cindy,
It sounds like there are *three* items involved here. The 3480 tape subsystem
is all short cabinets--I know, I've worked with them. It is entirely possible
that there is a disk storage array and a server connected to the 3480, that is
to say, a complete data processing system.
Please ask your friend for a little more detail on the server and the storage
rack.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Ave S
Seattle, WA 98134
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
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