Re: 'green screen' not sellable --> WE(?) are the problem

[Mark D <mdlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You know every now and then you can find machines on ebay that are
unwiped.  Sometimes 515/520 come up with a real OS license for under
$1k.  Some of the old as dirt ones like my 820 still have some life left
for much less than that.  At that price you can buy it and possibly even
sell it to recover your money once you're finished breaking it.

Going that way has allowed me to learn how to do full system saves,
restores, disk replacement procedures, playing in SST, installing linux
on LPAR, etc.  For learning RPG properly, rzkh.de would be perfectly
fine.   It was interesting to examine the boards, chips, ports, etc and
try to figure out how ibm assembled everything.  Recovering the qsecofr
password and setting up the lan console was also fun.

You can recover a completely locked system as long as you have keys.

Mark


On 06/08/2015 04:20 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. wrote:
> Since I feel I am being dogged for my comments...
>
> I heard there were places where you could rent a "machine" but I couldn't
> find any and my cohorts did not know of any either.  I even asked some sales
> reps at Mainline and they didn't know of any.  I finally gave in and broke
> down and BOUGHT a small iSeries to the tune of $26K for a single user
> license so I could develop software that I wanted to market.  I would have
> been much happier spending $1200/year if I could have ever figured out what
> to Google to find you.
>
> As an added grouch point, since it was a single user license, I called about
> adding a second user so a cohort could do some work on my machine and it was
> an another $5K per user.