Re: IBM 5363 - System/36 - Connecting to a PC?

Oh it's a free server.   Honestly, I wouldn't even pay to have one shipped.
I'm picking it up.   But if I can get one of the 5250 twinax emulator cards
for $20 or less on ebay, it's worth tinkering with.  Hell, might even be
able to throw it on my resume.   If there's the slightest doubt it'll be
useless and a waste of time, then I won't go get it.  Would make a mighty
fine heater though.  I used to have a Netrix P90 router.   It was in this
HUGE rackmount steel case that weighed about 80lbs.    Had dual PS's, etc
and was full of worthless network cards and 500mb HD's.  I put NT 4.0 on it,
it run amazingly slow (only had 16mb of memory) but I left it on because it
kept my room warm in winter time.    Created a nice humming too that put me
to sleep at night ;)

Jeremy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Draper" <jdraper@trilosoft.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: IBM 5363 - System/36 - Connecting to a PC?


> Consider that these machines are available anywhere.  I (sadly) dumped
one.
> I don't think a working machine with software and books could cost more
than
> shipping.  Even today you probably could get a 236 or even ad 426 for the
> cost of shipping.
>
> What's your purpose?  Heater?
>
> Jerry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: JL <ljlt@infoave.net>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:43 AM
> Subject: Re: IBM 5363 - System/36 - Connecting to a PC?
>
>
> > Thanks James,
> >
> > If I decide to get this thing and haul it home I may go that route.  A
> > quesiton though, with the disks, if I don't have the admin password then
> can
> > I just reinstall over the old version?   I thought they knew it, but I
> > talked to one of the administrators at the hospital and he said that
they
> > don't have the passwords anymore.  With my luck they're not easy to
guess
> > either (it IS a hospital server with patient records on it anyways, or
did
> > have records on it).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy
>
>
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