R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2010-06-03 00:52, Kevin Keith pisze:
Hi,
I know this idea might sound crazy, but I was wondering about the
prospects
of an IBM mainframe for personal use. I'm aware of the hurdles
considering
the Service Element (hard drives being detroyed, etc.) HMC, OSes, and
other
problems. My question is where would one go about looking for one of
these?
I could obviously buy one from a reseller for thousands of dollars,
but I
can't really afford that. I feel like there are many of these machines
being dumped and scrapped (especially since they are relatively
recently no
longer supported) is there any way to get one just ONE of these
before its
destroyed by a scrapper?
Obviously you can have MP3K and use it, BUT. The gotcha is software
license. YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE SOFTWARE! There are not z/OS licences
"for home&fun use". It's a pity, but reality.
BTW: MP3K is relatively small, but not less affordable than big 9672.
Yes, what a shame. IF you could license z/OS just for fun (Hercules)
then there are a lot better hardware platforms than a MP3K to run it on.
A medium sized Intel server would nuke a MP3K.
BTW2: I know some guy in Poland who owns two z/800 boxes and has
licence for z/OS.e. In Parallel Sysplex, with ISC cards, sysplex
timer, external DASD, etc. Just for fun. <g>
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