15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
11:53 a.m.
I would love to get all the items he has up for bid, each starts out at $1
and no takers so far. I sent him a email about shipping the KB he has but
no answer back yet. I also asked if he would donate the stuff for a tax
write-off if no one bid on it. He three large printers, terminals, and two
CPUs. Let's talk offline.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Carder" <wacarder at usit.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: RE: Identify this IBM box?
On Fri, 15 Apr
2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I'm unaware if many IBMs around that era shared chassis, but that is an
identical configuration to my System/34, from the 8" jukebox to the
programmers panel.
Two of these just came up free for pickup in Canada (Post here to
ccmp only a couple days ago).
(I'm not sure about its $30k tag, the woman I picked my /34 from said she
paid $155k for hers in 1980)
JP
This stuff is about an hour from my house. I could
get it and possibly store it for someone. I have a
shop that has some room left in it. Anyone out there
on the list interested in this stuff if I get it?
I'm in Leesville, South Carolina, about 50 miles
north of Orangeburg, where the stuff is located. I
can't remember... how heavy is that S/34? I remember
that it was about 4+ feet tall and maybe 6 or 8 feet
deep. I can remember one night when I was playing
substitute system operator, and I was printing the
"billing register" at about 3:00am. Every 30 or 60
minutes, I'd have to reload the big line printer
with the special paper. I got sleepy after reloading
the printer and I curled up behind the S/34 and went
to sleep.
BTW, my first real job after college was programming
in RPG on an IBM System/34 from 1981 to 1983 or so.
Then I moved on the the mainframe and COBOL and
Command Level CICS.
Let me know if anyone's interested in making a road
trip to S. Carolina to get this stuff if I bid on
it and pick it up.
Ashley
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> The seller (obviously) doesn't know much about it, but it
appears to be
a fairly
large deskside IBM machine from around 1980.
Link to auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5185251356
Ideas, anyone?
Looks like a System/3x?
Don't pass up this "RARE FIND", folks!