On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:18:41 -0600, tony babonas wrote: >Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else >needed, then host IBM-MAIN, RACF-L, CICS-L, VM-L, DB2-L etc etc. >Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue. > >Possible? Would be a great proof of concept. How much would each of us >have to pony up? > >Imagine the possibilities. Maybe IBM, CA, BMC, FDR et all would be willing >to help out..... You have completely missed the point: the list owner (Darren, in our case) is the true fundamental value to this list. The hardware & operating system are meaningless in our context. The site hosting that hardware/OS is providing us with funding (mostly, lately, to enable pointless off-topic meanderings... but I digress) but it is their funding of the list owner's salary that is the real deal. Moving (or even _thinking_ about moving) somewhere else - without Darren - is borderline blasphemy! -- Tom Schmidt
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