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IBM Rack server

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ribs1

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Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone could help me piece together some info. I went to University of Michigan property disposition today looking for goodies. I usually go there every couple months to see if they have any good stuff. They get rid of all kinds of retired computer stuff, as well as any other lab equipment etc. Today they had a giant IBM server in a giant rack like case with 3 nodes inside. On a sticky note outside of the rack was written "3 nodes 2 with 8 cpu's, 1 with 12. Each node has at least 32 gb ram, no drives". I opened the case to see if they were pII's or pIII's. I got one of the nodes open and it did look like about 32 gb ram, and it did have 8 processors. I could see scsi cables everywhere, but I could not see the scsi controllers. I could not get it open enough to get a heatsink off and see what the processors were. They want $500 bucks for the whole thing. Can you guys speculate for me as to what this thing might be worth?

I might buy it and try to get it running just for fun, or I might sell the parts on Ebay.
Thanks
Paul
 
Usually IBM puts a model number on the bottom of the top-cover.

Like so. Notice Machine Type at the top.
 
Well, I'm sure you could part out the ram into 512 meg chunks and probably sell them for more than $500 total on ebay. As well as the processors them selves if you really didn't want to keep it around.
 
yeah, but you'd need your own diesel generator just to power the thing :eek:
 
We have two 8 processor IBM machines, one with 32GB of RAM and one with 8GB. One was VMware and the other SQL. But yes machine type would help a lot. Its also going to need its own power plant to keep it running.
 
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