Jeff,

I have 3 units.

I have 1 939/KS100 for the contacts and ledgers, installed new in 1996
to replace a '950, after about 5 years added some more RAM, and after 11
years I've bought a cheap RAID enclosure with 12 9Gb disks.  Will be in
production for the foreseeable future.

I have 2 969's one 969KS100/4 and one 969KS120/4 the first installed new
in 97 to replace a 937RX, added a few bit of RAM, Proc's and Jamaica box
disks over the years.  The other was purchased in 2002 second hand from
NewCorp in the UK, complete with 4 proc's 1Gb ram, and RAID subsystem,
not needed to add anything to this machine through!  Again all will be
in production for the foreseeable future.

I do have all boxes covered by HP for support, but if this finally comes
to an end in 2010 and we don't get a further extension, I'll move them
to Newcorp and carry on, I trust Martin!

I think the problem is the 3000 was too good, no built in obsolescence,
that's why HP killed it, no future revenues outside of support, although
how they can throw away £50k sterling a year for nothing, well maybe a
replacement DAT or 2 a year!

Regards

Peter Martin
IT Operations Manager
Chubb Electronic Security Systems Ltd

a UTC Group Company

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From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Jeff Kubler
Sent: 07 Feb 2008 19:07
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Subject: Re: How long???


To all;
Appreciate everyone's response.  I wondered if anyone is a aware of a 
"rule of thumb" that most would use for the average life that might 
be safely expected from a computer system?  For instance, how often 
should one plan to upgrade your computer systems?  Prior to HP 
foolish termination of the life of the HP 3000, what had been the 
normal practice for upgrading your HP 3000's?
Thanks,
Jeff

t 09:20 PM 2/6/2008, Mark Ranft wrote:
>Many of my clients are in the process of migrating.  A couple are 
>settling in to homestead.
>
>My largest client has over thirty HP 3000 systems.  Most of these are 
>N-Classes with a few large K-Class systems tossed in.  They are hard at
work
>trying to complete their migration.   The time and effort required to
>migrate will continue until at least 2011.  After that the systems will

>remain for historical purposes.
>
>Mark Ranft
>(612) 804-2774
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Jeff Kubler
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:56 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: How long???
>
> >To all;
>
>Not a lot going on with this discussion group??
>What's the current status?
>What are home steaders on the HP 3000 saying about how long they might 
>do home steading? Thanks,
>jeff
>
>
>Jeff Kubler
>Kubler Consulting, Inc.
>541-745-7457
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Jeff Kubler
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