There's nothing terribly special about the 3420
drives. I mean, who
(beside my insane self) is going to want one?
Those of us that like REAL computers. Not the weenie DEC toys...
And if so, for what, other
than gawking at it?
They are damn good drives - OK, OK, so an "odd" interface...
Same goes for all big IBM iron.
To extend something that Al K. said a while back - in the future
retrocomputerist are going to have a very slanted view of systems, with
extremely few people saving the mainframes from the 70s thru the 90s. That
is a damn big hole.
If someone can get down to SA with a big truck,
there's actually quite a
bit of old (in some cases very old) IBM iron floating around down there.
I have started to think that this might be the only way I can get my hands
on a real IBM S/360 or 370 (or 303x or 308x or 309x, and pretty soon,
ES/9000).
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org