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Owning my personal mainframe is a long-held dream of mine, but practically, it wouldn't make a lot of sense unless somebody would let me put it into their datac
by krylon 11y ago
Owning my personal mainframe is a long-held dream of mine, but practically, it wouldn't make a lot of sense unless somebody would let me put it into their datacenter.
My apartment is on the second floor, so a) I would not be able to get it upstairs and b) the floor would probably collapse under the weight. Plus, it is pretty big and would make my living room kind of ... crowded. And then, there is the electricity... And even if I somehow could solve all these problems, I would still need to attach a storage server to it, which kind of has the same problems.
So I envy this person, a lot, but realistically, I would not want to buy one for myself.
(IIRC, during the S/390 days, IBM built a 4U mini-mainframe one could rack-mount. There also was the P/390, which was a single-board implementation that came with one CPU, a channel controller and 128 or 256 MB RAM, all on a PCI card - I think it was meant for developers. Sadly, IBM has given up on small-ish mainframes...)
- kabdib 11y ago... and the power bill would bankrupt you :)
- kjs3 11y agoThe P/390 is very nifty (and there were Microchannel versions as well as PCI), as is the earlier XT/370 & AT/370 (ISA-bus implemented in re-microcoded mc68000s). More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM-compatible_mainframes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM-compatible_mainfr... These days there's always the Hercules emulator to get your IBM fix. http://www.hercules-390.eu/ http://www.hercules-390.eu/ Me? I'm looking for a Micro A, the desktop version of the Burroughs B5000 mainframe.