16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
8:19 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 16 Nov 2006 at 9:31, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Guess what? I work in a mainframe-manufacturing facility, and I can get
my hands on mainframes at work too. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
More than money, for my collection, I had to
sacrifice most of the space
in my house. Many people would think I'm crazy for collecting machines
that take up hundreds of square feet each, but for me the motivation is
to play with the machines I lusted after an *account* on.
Then, it must be like chocolate. Work for Hershey's for a few years
on the line and you probably don't have much of a taste left.
Being in a manufacturer's special systems group, I got all of the
hands-on time that I could possibly want (mostly in the hours between
11PM and 7AM) on big iron. Ever use a Cyber 74 cluster as a
keypunch? Played baseball and other games for hours on the
operator's console on an otherwise idle machine. When I moved into
microporocessors, the same was true, only the hours were better and I
could take a system home with me.