I suspect that this machine was moved on because the service contract expired and a shiny new server with a service contract.
Interesting method of doing business, although I did play heavy on the student. Maybe I will find a download from a less reputable source, if having the hardware entitles me to run their software. -H On 27 July 2017 03:15:01 BST, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> > 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.
