[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 patrick at zill.net
Fri Sep 16 23:27:55 CDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 00:12, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
> An E10K uses IIRC 8x30A, 200-240V feeds (probably only 4 are necessary).  
> You have enough cooling and money to run the machine (power and cooling) 
> laying around?

In the winter months you only need the 4x30A feed plus the ability to shovel show *into* the area where the E10K is :-)


> IBM's promotion of Linux on all of their hardware now helps to improve 
> their cred, and makes their POWER stuff much more usable.

Supposedly there will (soon?) be a port of OpenSolaris to PowerPC and/or POWER machines.

--Patrick



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