[rescue] [OT] S: IBM /370 or /390 card

[Dave McGuire]

On 9/12/23 15:40, Andrew Back via rescue wrote:
>>> IBM at one point made cards with a "mainframe type" CPU and some RAM on a card to fit in a PC. I'm interested in obtaining one for a reasonable price.
>>>
>>> I'm located in Germany but have a friend travelling from/to the US regularly to aid with transport of "small things".
>>
>>      You're here too. :)
>>
>>      P/390, AT/370, etc cards typically sell for vast sums of money, when
>> they do turn up, which is rare
> 
> Yes, I read that and thought how I'd like a reasonably priced desktop
> Straight 8 and a Ferranti Pegasus :o)

   There's a Straight-8 on eBay right now.

   We have four at LSSM now; are you ever gonna come visit? ;)

> Well, a /370 card turned up on eBay for about $800 recently, but the
> seller would only ship within the US and it went pretty quick. I'd had
> that saved search in place for some years and it was the first result.

   I wonder if the new owner got it running.  I've not heard a peep 
about anyone looking for the software etc.

   We have an IBM 9371 at LSSM, that's the very strange box that 
contains the guts of two PS/2 Model 80s back to back, with a large stack 
of extra-tall MCA boards in it that implement a 370.  Absolutely crazy 
stuff.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA