In that case, it's even better than you're a long-time member! I'm quite surprised that it was still in-use 2 years ago; although I was just as surprised when I found out my system was taken offline a week before I bought it; so I guess people still do run on old hardware.
As for DASD, you're even more lucky. Finding any DASD is insanely hard, let along something that's bus & tag. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of William Donzelli <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 14:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ES/9000 microcode > First, congrats, and welcome to the "basement mainframe club"...it's quiet > exclusive. :) I have been part of the club for years! The Cybers outnumber the IBMs here, but we don't talk about them on this list. > Second, a running ES/9000 is crazy-hard to come by; so that's a great score! I was shocked to hear that it was still in use only two years ago. > You *may* be able to run older Linux distros. The ES/9000 is close enough to > S/390 (itself is based on ES/3900 from what I remember) that you might be > able to boot some of the 31-bit compiled distros. At this point, I am not so worried about any OS for the thing. If the DASDs are indeed wiped (it looks like a RAMAC2), I think something could be found, even if years away. The important thing is the microcode tape would be secure. -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
