26 Nov
2007
26 Nov
'07
6:48 p.m.
On Sunday 25 November 2007 02:29, r.stricklin wrote:
I am restoring a ca. 1985 IBM 5271---the so-called
3270 PC. I
received it intact, with a full complement of cards, cables, etc. It
looks very much like it was shut down, removed from its original
office installation, and then apparently left somewhere the squirrels
could get to it (thus, "restoring"). I've vacuumed about forty pounds
of sunflower seed hulls out of it. Blessedly, I haven't found any
other signs of animal inhabitation.
This reminds me of the Kaypro I was brought once that had been used in a barn.
I must've pulled ten pounds of straw out of it, which would tend to explain
the disk errors they were getting...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin