Any pointers to companies that trade in used IBM parts. Ebay seems like too generic a place to post stuff.
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:19 AM Mike Smith <m...@mlsmith.us> wrote: > I would imagine that the FICON and OSA cards might have value to someone. > These cards can still be used in other z14's, z15's and z16's. With the > hardware WKFM date for z15's having passed, the only way to add an adapter > to a z15 is to acquire it from the secondary market (aka used). You could > try posting them on eBay or contact some of the companies that trade in > used IBM parts. > > Good luck! > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Laurence Chiu > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 6:08 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Getting rid of a z14 zr1 - any value in the host cards? > > Sorry. Z14 > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 2:59 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > z14 as in the Subject or z16 as in the body? > > > > CM > > > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:04:39 +1300, Laurence Chiu <lch...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > >I need to decommission and remove for potential destruction z16 zr1. > > >It only has one active engine so it's capped at 88 mips which isn't > > >very useful. But for a number of reasons it has a ton of 16G fibre > > >channel cards (6 or 8 I think). They might have some value so I was > > >thinking I would remove them before having the host removed. There > > >are > > also > > >4 OSA Express cards (10G). Our IBM SE said IBM do not support used > > >cards > > in > > >CEC's but that does not mean they won't work? > > > > > >Another thought was it could be used as a sysprog play pen, carving > > >up > > some > > >storage of the DS8K we have and creating a small z/OS image. But how > > >much play can you do in 88 MIPS? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
