IBM Mainframe

[Mike Ross]

Well, you know they use  a custom OS/2-based front end, much like a
'real' mainframe SE/HMC? That thing is an absolute nightmare of arcane
IBM complexity; that's where all my problems were, no way no how could
I get the damn CPU to initialise... good luck, unless you have a
running box freshly switched off (which mine was supposed to be!)
you'll need it!

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
> Yes it was!  I'm getting another one as soon as Will makes his trip out
> West.  I had intended
> for this one as spares.
>
> Great!  My concern has been getting S/W for them.  I don't know what's on
> them (yet).
>
> TTFN - Guy
>
>
>
> On 5/2/15 12:25 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
>>
>> Oh was this the one on epay last week? I nearly went for that myself! I
>> have two (one for spares) but major issues getting it operational. I do
>> have pretty complete docs and software, so we should probably stay in
>> touch!
>>
>> Mike
>> On 2 May 2015 3:06 pm, "Guy Sotomayor" <ggs at shiresoft.com> 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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