[rescue] IBM on ebay

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Wow, a risk-free way to get into an IBM mainframe environment. If I had 6K
I'd do it.


~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
~ Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:00 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] IBM on ebay
~ 
~ 
~ http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2023078985
~ 
~ It appears that IBM is getting into selling their own 
~ mainframes on ebay.
~ 
~ Is that a G5 machine, anyone know?  It looks like it will 
~ shortly close for
~ $6k.
~ 
~ I wonder how well they would take shipping the machine w/o 
~ selling an OS to
~ go with it.  If I recall correctly, despite what Suse, IBM, 
~ et al want to
~ charge for linux, it is still possible to just download it 
~ and run it on
~ the bare metal.
~ 
~ -- 
~ Joshua D. Boyd
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