On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:21 -0400, William Donzelli wrote: > This mainframe "near history" is just as important as the stuff from the > punch card days. So this is the point of this soapbox rant - a request to > you people in the industry, some that used these systems. If you have > items from the mid-1970s and 80s, even early 1990s - from manuals to 1 ton > chunks of hardware - please ask before disposing it.
Mmmmm - what are the legal ramifications ???. Even if one was to find manuals/microcode/subsystem-code whatever, I suspect the fairly stringent licenses would come into play. Even "free" code has requirements to be destroyed when no longer licensed/needed. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
