2 Sep
2005
2 Sep
'05
1:02 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Granted that dealing wih IBM stuff is difficult in the
absence of the rest of
the system if you want it be anything other than a big dead artifact (which I
guess is why you are annoyed with their occupation of your warehouse.)
Well, I can't be too annoyed since I'm the one that put them there :) But
that was basically my point: without any real chance of getting a full
system, what's the point of having them? You can get them running in a
test mode and have a tape being de-spooled from one reel onto a take-up
reel, but that's about it.
And circa-1970-or-so one could say the same about 400
series accounting
machines as they headed to the scrapper. :)
Very true.
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