On 4/16/22 7:54 AM, Enzo D'Amato wrote:
I hadn't known about zPD&T student edition. I had only known about the personal edition, which last time I checked was close to 6k per year. The learner's edition looks pretty interesting however.
:-)
The unit in question still has it's SEs intact, and the seller claims that it was pulled out of service in working condition, and hasn't been modified since.
Well, that's a lot better than having one or more "known problem(s)" that you will need to overcome. -- Not that known problems are a deal breaker. It's just really nice to know about them before taking the leap.
The z114 can be fed from standard 220v power, and will pull around 9A. In terms of cooling, I am planning to keep it in my enclosed garage. The space is within the IBM spec for humidity and temperature, and the space is usually quite cold, so I am hoping to leverage the passive cooling.
*nod*nod* Been there. Done that. Hobbyist can tend to get away with that for a while. Thankfully.
I am definitely standing on the cliff, and trying to decide weather or not my parachute will hold. Thanks for the info.
One other factor that I might add to my equations / mental processing is that if the price is low enough, then I'd probably do it even if I had an inclination that I couldn't make things work for long simply for the experience and exposure to the system.
Who knows, maybe it will be exposure therapy that will either hook you on mainframes for the rest of your life or make you walk away saying please not again. Either way, that's good information to have.
Finally, if you do take the leap, is there somewhere (other than the mailing list) that you will share pictures? I always enjoy looking at big computer systems.
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