[vcf-midatlantic] OT: Test Post and IBM Z890

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/02/2015 05:26 PM, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> Well I did the ill-advised and got the Z890 :P
>> Won the machine for $237, a fair price I'd say :)
>> I may only be 115LBS and the rack alone may have weighted roughly 800LBS, but with the right tools and some friends and family to help out it wasn't too hard to get moved.
>> The most difficult part was the excavation we had to do to get it to fit under the deck! It was a REALLY tight fit as you will see in the photos.
>> It took two trips up to Rutgers to get it all, one with the truck alone to remove most of the innards and another with the trailer as-well to grab the rack.
>> Its already in the basement and most of the way back together, just running the wiring internally for it then I need to wire up a 240v 30a outlet once we get the new breaker box in since there is no more room in the current box.
> 
> That thing only takes 6 kW?  I'm a little surprised.

  All CMOS and relatively recent.  People were trying to paint this as
"a vintage mainframe out of some storage room", but it isn't...this is a
64-bit machine with a minimum memory config of 8GB, still supported
until the end of next year.  Matt and I measured mine this past weekend
at about 5A/phase, idle but running. (no DASD)

                -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA