Hello Friends:

Since nobody's replied in public to B. Burns' request, I thought I 
might chip in a few obvious leads. (Best of luck in picking up the 
pieces from the storm. I believe the Big Easy will bounce back, with 
enough time.)

As for the resources -- For many years, Genisys has supported our 
newsletter by advertising its used HP 3000 systems:

<http://www.genisyscorp.com>

Pivital Solutions also handles used HP 3000s, and it was one of the 
last authorized new HP 3000 resellers before HP de-commissioned the 
whole 3000 sales business nearly two years ago:

<http://www.pivitalsolutions.com>

Resource 3000's consortium also includes a hardware sales and support 
operation, courtesy of R3K partner Ideal Computer Services:

<http://www.icsgroup.com/sales/sales.html>

OpenMPE, the user group serving 3000 sites exclusively now that 
Interex has gone broke, has a good page of used 3000 equipment 
brokers:

<http://www.openmpe.org/mpebokers.htm>

Of course, by now Burns has probably gotten several quotes e-mailed 
in reply from the go-getters in the broker market.

918 systems do come up on eBay from time to time. There's an 918RX, 
not an LX, being offered today on eBay by Cypress Technology for 
$5,000, including a COBOL compiler and lots of other software 
licenses -- which you probably don't need to pay for, since your 
software licenses should be intact, even if the hardware is sunk.

But this last point leads me to wonder about HP's software 
re-licensing policy in the face of hardware disasters. Back in 1999, 
the vendor was claiming that a 3000's software licenses were tied to 
the hardware, like license plates are tied to specific vehicles:

<http://www.3000newswire.com/subscribers/LicenseXferFolo-9905.html>

Has anybody out on the list had their software transferred off a 3000 
system that did not survive a Katrina-like event? What steps did you 
have to take with HP, or third parties?

>Hello.  We have a business located in New Orleans.   The roof of our
>building partially came off during Katrina and our office had over five
>feet of water.   Our business was mostly destroyed. We are trying to
>recover.   We made tape backups.  We are in need of an HP3000 918LX
>system.  Does anyone know the best way to locate a used system?  Any help
>would be most appreciated.

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