If any one is interested, I have a brand new AS400 sitting upstairs in my computer room, it was a bought as surplus item, never used. I just hung onto it. It can be yours cheap, not wanting an arm and a leg for it, I would be open to a nice offer if anyone has an interest.
john plemons
On 10/30/2018 3:37 PM, mark wrote:
Mark Rousell wrote:
On 30/10/2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote:
<snip> > Yup. When I looked at IBM Power machines before (maybe about a year ago, > not sure), there was actually a pricing tool on the website. You could go > through various options for machines (GPUs, CPUs, storage, memory, etc.) > and get a price. Annoyingly I didn't record detailed pricing info but, as > I recall, the prices were painful but not totally out of > comparison with high end x86-64 servers from HPE and the like. I wish I'd > kept the quotes now. > >> IBM has the chance to change this now. >> > It would be nice if they would. But I think it be a very big step for > them to willingly reduce prices unless and until other vendors can undercut > them in a large enough scale. But it seems that a lot of people in larger > businesses still like the security of "IBM" (even if they choose to run > Linux on the boxes). > Unless I'm misremembering, these are midway between small server and mainframe. I just did a search, and only found used systems, never new, and they were all "refurbed", starting at $1500, and going up to $22k... and still refurbed.
I think my guess of new, > $100k is about right.
mark
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