It is possible, even usual in many shops, to continue to use machines well after they have been withdrawn from marketing.
The inability to obtain more storage or to activate a spare, already acquired CP is another, much more serious matter. That sort of thing apparently came later. How much later? I have only anecdotal evidence for this, but the prices of this specific model in the after market appear to have dropped more sharply/rapidly than usual, and it may be that we are looking at an IBM initiative that was not very successful and thus deserved to be short-lived. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
