[rescue] IBM on ebay

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Fogg, James wrote:

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

There are significantly cheaper ways to do it, with the same safety nets.

Peace...  Sridhar

> ~ 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.
> ~
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