Re: Re: Interesting idea

On 10/10/10 1:58 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>>> A 3090-400J would require either HPO, VM/XA, or VM/ESA.  A 400J would require VM/XA or VM/ESA unless it ran in physically partitioned mode (essentially, as a pair of 3090-200Js), since HPO did not support systems with more than 2 CPUs.
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>>> Consider that a single CPU of a 3090 ran at under 20 MIPS - my, how Moore's Law has changed things!
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>>    Yes, but the I/O bandwidth, mmmmm!  *drool*
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>>    And those vector processors.
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>>    Oh, if I only had the space...
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> Hello!
> Way ahead of you.

   I figured as much! :-)

> I've wanted anything related to the S/370 and S/390 family for years.

   Me too; stuff in the IBM mainframe area is really tough to find.  I 
do have a P/390, an MP3000 (basically a shrunken S/390 G5 with wimpier 
I/O), and a z890 here, though the z890 belongs to work.

   I do have a small 370, a 9375, complete with DASD and a tape drive. 
It arrived a few months ago, but I've been scrambling to keep the lights 
on here so I've not yet been able to do anything with it.  Here are some 
pics of it coming off the truck in my driveway:

   http://www.neurotica.com/misc/s370/

   I wonder if there's any hope for saving the 3090 that you mentioned. 
  I'm sure it's going to a scrapper; lots of gold and other metals in 
that machine.  That would be very, very sad.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL