On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
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.
Well, I'm certainly trying to do my part to keep the record straight ;)
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).
Pfeh. That's modern stuff. I'm after 400 series accounting machines
myself ;)
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