28 May
2024
28 May
'24
11:42 a.m.
Since I belive ALL IBM computers in that era were ONLY leased, it is technically still the
property of IBM and they could claim it back.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 05/28/2024 1:32 PM CDT Jon Elson via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/28/24 12:02, ben via cctalk wrote:
There's a story about a guy in Australia that found an
abandoned IBM 360/30 in a storage/shipper's warehouse and
dragged it to a rented office space that had no elevator. He
carefully dismantled it, dragged the pieces up to at least
the 2nd or 3rd floor, put it back together and got it running!
QUITE a story!
Jon
Same concept as, if one guy living in a formerly
industrial loft has water cooling, and 300 amp 3 phase
power available, that does NOT make any computer
requiring that "personal". For that I'd say must be able
to plug into 50% of all homes, but realize more quibbling
might apply there, such as 90% of all "middle class" homes.
For me to have a computer, means taking it 3 flights of
stairs.
Thus most vintage computers, I don't even think about them.