> > I emailed IBM regarding a license to do research with For the OP, having the hardware still (last I checked) entitles you to run AIX on it. You just have to find the media, which for a system that old is not easy. I've never been able to find 4.1.5 on CD, for example, even though I know it exists. (I have 4.1.5 for my Apple Network Server on disc thanks to a member of this group, but not 4.1.5 for generic RS/6000 and IBM PowerPC hardware.)
> IBM redid all their websites a few years ago, and finding information > about systems older than Power7 has become ... challenging. > > They're ... uh, not going to respond to you. IMHO. Seven years ago I couldn't get IBM to take my money when I was ready to buy a brand new POWER7 to take over for my dear ANS 500 (which will be at VCF in August, btw). I had my credit card and a $14,000 budget. I was ready to buy. I couldn't get them on the phone. I couldn't get *half their VARs* to return a call. I ended up buying a used POWER6, about $10K all told, from a reseller who *was*, in fact, happy to take my money. So I do business with them. It runs AIX 6 TLmumble with some patches. It is the machine sending you this E-mail. I suspect the issue is IBM doesn't want to do business with people like me who can maintain our own hardware. Power Systems are hardly commodity x86 servers, but the real money is in service contracts, and that was the one thing I was not going to pay for. Never did hear back from them. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Political correctness is tyranny with manners. -- Charlton Heston ----------
