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

[Dave McGuire]

On 9/12/23 16:27, Andrew Back via rescue wrote:
>>      We have four at LSSM now; are you ever gonna come visit? ;)
> 
> That's just greedy! I'd certainly love to, one day.

   Well, you're welcome (as is everyone else) to come and hack on them, 
and everything else.

>>      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.
> 
> That does sound pretty wild.

   Yeah.  I really hope we can get it running.

> I'm kicking myself for not having picked up a reasonably priced
> Multiprise (~£2K) from a reseller about 11-12 years back.

   They are quite nice machines.  The 3000 is faster, but the 2000 is 
closer to being a real mainframe, with real I/O.  We have both running.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA