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If one had too much cash sitting around and wanted to play with a low-end mainframe, what would be the ballpark cost to get one? Half a million? Yes, I'm aware
by wtracy 16y ago
If one had too much cash sitting around and wanted to play with a low-end mainframe, what would be the ballpark cost to get one? Half a million?
Yes, I'm aware that IBM wants you to lease mainframe hardware rather than actually buy it.
- bdb 16y agoIf you had a truck and a bunch of free time, say, $499? http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-S-390-G5-Parallel-Enterprise-Server-/300533094844?pt=COMP_EN_Workstations&hash=item45f92b19bc#ht_662wt_907 http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-S-390-G5-Parallel-Enterprise-Server-... The interesting thing about mainframe hardware is that it's designed to last forever, so the "old" stuff (which really means "brand new" stuff in mainframe terms) is still interesting.
- jacques_chester 16y agoThe smaller z10s were being sold for less than a $100k. Bear in mind that they have a lot of inbuilt redundancy.