Hello to all, I have seen some mainframe stuff for sale on e-bay and I don't know really what it is. ... For Sale: IBM Mainframe Equipment The equipment breaks...
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Jay Maynard
jmaynard@...
Jul 1, 2000 5:03 pm
... Got a big boat? This is a string of double-density 3380 DASD. It's not useful at all unless you have a mainframe to hang it off of, and the operating costs...
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Ted Rolle
ted@...
Jul 1, 2000 5:05 pm
Well, the pertinent question is: how much will you pay me to take it off your hands......
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jim stephens
jwstephens@...
Jul 1, 2000 10:46 pm
... <snip> ... <snip> I pointed out to the poster that he had about $150 worth of scrap iron, but got no reply. I also chastied him for the ridiculous claim...
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Mitch Wright
mew_jac@...
Jul 1, 2000 11:02 pm
You just need one of these to go with it: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370525382...
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mdelafon@...
Jul 2, 2000 2:40 am
... know ... not ... the ... Thank you all for the information! So I will forget the " $400 000.00 worth stuff that I should be paid $ 150.00 if I would like...
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mdelafon@...
Jul 2, 2000 2:49 am
Hello all, The auction has ended. Number of bids: a whopping 0. Nobody was interested. At first this thing interested me because I did not know what it really...
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jim stephens
jwstephens@...
Jul 2, 2000 3:32 am
mdelafon@... wrote: <snip> ... <snip> I have to point out that having a mainframe in your basement sort of eliminates the need for Hercules :-( on the...
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Paul Truscott
paul_truscott@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:25 am
I have just setup Hercules on a new machine. The previous version I installed was 1.57 sometime ago, and one or two things have slipped my mind since that...
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Rick Fochtman
rfochtman@...
Jul 2, 2000 7:40 pm
Stick to Hercules. You could heat most of the BLOCK with that gear. Take what you can get from the scrap dealer and be happy. ... [Non-text portions of this...
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Mike Ross
abaddon@...
Jul 2, 2000 11:55 pm
... wrote: snip.. ... OR U ... snip... The problem is the R 0,U - the first time you start MVT it wants the job queue formatted. From Jays site: The first...
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Mike Ross
abaddon@...
Jul 3, 2000 3:49 am
You've used the emulation, now go buy the real thing! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=371105527 How about it Jay - it's your part of the...
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jim stephens
jwstephens@...
Jul 3, 2000 5:36 am
I have been thinking about a restructure to allow Hercules be booted at Linux startup. I wonder if the following restructuring would be possible and advised: ...
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Paul Truscott
paul_truscott@...
Jul 3, 2000 5:54 am
Many thanks Mike, that did the trick. Some times you can't see the wood for the trees. My ops skills are well and truly rusty. All systems go now! Cheers, PT. ...
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Rick Fochtman
rfochtman@...
Jul 3, 2000 12:11 pm
Waste of time and money. It requires a 2821 controller for connection to ANYTHING. It uses wire 'brushes' to read cards and you'll play Hell trying to find...
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Jay Maynard
jmaynard@...
Jul 3, 2000 12:49 pm
... Yow. I have no idea what a guy in Santa Fe is doing with a real 2540...the collator and sorter I can see, but......
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Hall, Ken (ECSS)
KeHall@...
Jul 3, 2000 1:26 pm
You couldn't afford to install or run it. A 9021-522 is a water cooled box (contrary to the seller's comments), and needs pretty serious power to run. (At...
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Jay Maynard
jmaynard@...
Jul 3, 2000 1:37 pm
... That's right, but if you look at the IBM deinstallation tag, it's really a 9121-522. The seller got the machine type wrong, not the cooling. Still needs...
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Hall, Ken (ECSS)
KeHall@...
Jul 3, 2000 2:13 pm
I didn't look too closely at the tag, and I was puzzled when i read it, but I thought it was my memory going again. I don't think there WAS a 9021-521. There...
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Rick Fochtman
rfochtman@...
Jul 3, 2000 3:01 pm
I can't speak for the 9021 series box but my 3090-300 (long ago retired to the scrappers) cost $4.00 per hour for power and cooling. Just the CPU. If you've...
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Jay Maynard
jmaynard@...
Jul 3, 2000 5:43 pm
I've been asked to change the distribution tarball to put the files into a hercules-<version> directory, instead of the root of the tarball. This is more or...
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Ted Rolle
ted@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:01 pm
How about including an SHA-1 and MD-5 hash so we can check transfers?...
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David.F.Juraschek@...
Jul 3, 2000 7:06 pm
... With a blurb on the download page as to how to use these gizmos ... -Dave...
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Mike Ross
abaddon@...
Jul 4, 2000 3:24 am
I've uploaded a zip of the entire P/390 support software system, less the LIC (the only bit subject to restrictions - everything else seems to be freely...
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Martin Nischang
nischang@...
Jul 4, 2000 7:15 am
... less ... seems ... FTP ... valuable. ... creating ... board ... it ... may ... nonsense ... package, ... I fear performance degradation when switching to...
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Mike Ross
abaddon@...
Jul 4, 2000 2:48 pm
... Martin, Not sure about the performance implications of OS/2 - didn't think it was that shabby. Main problem with using the CTC/vmnet thing is that, unless...
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Rich Smrcina
rsmrcina@...
Jul 4, 2000 3:05 pm
Not entirely true, I can't speak for OS/390, but both VM/ESA and VSE/ESA support IP over CTC (and have for about four years now). Rich Smrcina Grede Foundries ...
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Tony Harminc
tzha1@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:28 pm
... I have two OS/390 TCPIPs talking to each other via (virtual) CTCAs in production. It's documented and fully supported. One of those OS/390s also talks to...
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Mike Ross
abaddon@...
Jul 4, 2000 4:44 pm
... in ... in ... Tony, That's truly interesting... I haven't found any IBM docs that indicate how that's done, and at least one doc that excluded the 3088 as...
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Tony Harminc
tzha1@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:08 pm
... DEVICE CTC1 CTC E46 IOBUFFERSIZE 65535 AUTORESTART LINK CTC1 CTC 0 CTC1 and then a HOME statement later on. Addresses E46 and E47 are VM ...
