IBM Mainframe
Guy Sotomayor
ggs at shiresoft.com
Sat May 2 14:25:17 CDT 2015
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
>>
>>
>
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