5 Mar
2008
5 Mar
'08
8:46 p.m.
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:30:12 -0600
From: bbrown at harpercollege.edu
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: IBM 3088 - Dummy questions
Sounds like 4341 (or maybe 4331)'s (waist high, couch wide).
They were air-cooled.
-Bob
4341 sounds right. I wonder what happened to those machines
when the company folded.
Dwight
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of dwight elvey
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:56 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: IBM 3088 - Dummy questions
Nowhere near the same kind of hardware. A 3081 is a large system. A
3088 is a peripheral.
Peace... Sridhar
Hi
That sounds better. I couldn't imagine someone wanting to power up a
3081. Between water cooler and motor generator, it used more than $20K
USD a month in electricity.
We also had a couple 43?? computers as well. These were waste high and
about as long as a couch. I think these were also water cooled.
Dwight
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From: ploopster at gmail.com
dwight elvey wrote:
>> From: bear at typewritten.org
>>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:54 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>>>> I am asking these questions because I might get hands on 3 of them
>> and according to my contact 2 out of 3 are
still NOS.
>> So I wonder if I (as a DEC/Unix Guy) can make any use out of them.
> Likely no, but there are people here that can.
I certainly can use a 3088 or two.
I've never seen one, though. How big are they?
ok
bear
Hi
I never saw a 3088 but I did see a 3081. As I recall, it was about
16 full height racks layed out like a cross except it had two cross
bars. There were a lot of changes between these models.