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

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jun 7 19:06:06 CDT 2001


I've heard about your house.  Never seen it unfortunatly.

I've been told that some machines aren't supposed to be run in residential
areas, according to the FCC.  Never heard of anyone really being busted
for having crays at home.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 
>   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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