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Would love to have one in my homelab, but they're functionally impossible to acquire.
by MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
Would love to have one in my homelab, but they're functionally impossible to acquire.
- Fade_Dance 1y agoPresumably they don't run forever and are eventually upgraded... Well, let's assume they do run forever since we're talking mainframes, even then there would be the occasional upgrade. What happens to the old ones? Presumably it's not like standard servers and workstations where you end up finding 100 pages of Old Dell servers on eBay, but they have to go somewhere, no? Straight to the shredder?
- unnah 1y agoYou can find quite a few used Power 8 and Power 9 servers for sale on ebay. The prices range from a thousand dollars or euros to a few thousand, so not for everyone but well within the reach of a well-off hobbyist.