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Wow. I'm a mainframe dev who just turned 30 and this is the dream. Sometimes I see old VAX or IBM machines given away in Europe but getting it transported to S
by tapland 7y ago
Wow. I'm a mainframe dev who just turned 30 and this is the dream.
Sometimes I see old VAX or IBM machines given away in Europe but getting it transported to Sweden is an even bigger project than finding something that can be made working.
- blattimwind 7y agoIf you can strap them to a couple euro pallets it shouldn't be too expensive to ship.
- tapland 7y agoI plan on looking into that if I get a permanent contract (which comes with a pay raise) in a few weeks. Would love to tinker with that, emulating OpenVMS, z/os etc on x86 gets boring after a while :D
- Fnoord 7y agoHey, I know that in the begin of '00s, CCC (and/or CCCC) were running a VMS cluster on VAX and Alpha machines for fun. You could even peer with them. I don't know if they still do, but you might wanna look into such project(s). As for getting it shipped, old computers get sold regularly on eBay Germany ever since I been doing business there (the last 20 years or so). From Germany to Sweden shouldn't be too difficult.