I'd rather take a 4381 cabinet, gut it, and put a very small PC inside running Hercules. Dummy up the control panel and 3279 console terminal, and use the empty space for storage.
Many years ago, I was offered a 370/145. Sensibly, I declined. I had the room, but never would have been able to get the power. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Campbell Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Used MP3000 It has been cold enough this last week in Florida to have me think it'd make a nice central heating system that can also run one honkin' big Linux... Pardon my drool. There was a time 3 years ago when I was running a QA Universal Server Farm in Tampa (see http://home.jtan.com/~soup/Desk/ for some pics out the window from my desk that was inside the lab) that I would have _loved_ to scrounge up an MP3000 so we had a mainframe we could test various configs on... especially the USFv5+ architecture. (shrugs) I think the space _may_ still be available for sublet *as* a raised-floor facility... :-) -soup Robert Hedgpeth wrote: > If anyone is interested in a used MP3000-H30 fully populated with > internal dasd and 2-3490E rack mounted tape drives (with rack) please > contact me offline. > > Robert W. Hedgpeth > Technical Support Representative > illustro Systems, Intl., LLC > www.illustro.com <http://www.illustro.com/> > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended > recipient only. > If misdirected, please notify us by telephone and confirm that it has > been deleted > from your system and any copies destroyed. If you are not the intended > recipient > you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing > or disseminating > this e-mail or any information contained in it. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > > We use reasonable measures to virus scan all E-mails leaving illustro > but no warranty > is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free. You should > ensure you > have adequate measures in place for your own virus checking. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
