[rescue] RE: [SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jun 7 13:13:58 CDT 2001


  You need to see my house.

    -Dave McGuire

On June 7, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Is it even legal to put an IBM mainframe in a residential neiborhood?  
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > >> IIRC you can get the card with VM for under US$20,000.  At least, I recall
> > >> there being something like that mentioned in Linux Journal a year or so
> > >> ago when they were going "ooh! shiny!" at the S390 port.
> > >
> > > This is right.  It's quite a viable platform for small scale development
> > > unless you have to hack channel controller code (which my group did).
> > 
> > are these things still $20k?  i would really like to get one.  although, looking
> > at IBMs site you can buy refurb mainframes for >$10K but you still have the
> > power issue.  they take more than i have to give. :)
> > 
> > -brian
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