17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
4:42 p.m.
Quothe Patrick Finnegan, from writings of Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at
12:34:21AM -0500:
I know this is OT by a couple years, but I hope you
all don't mind too
much ; )
Nah... nice find!
There's a Mainframe sitting in my living room.
Not just any mainframe,
but a nice black S/390 G3 (9672-RC4). It's got a 1996 list price that
rivals the prices of houses in SoCal, and it's managed to depreciate to
Congratulations! Now all you need to do is find a little bit more
space for the immortal power supply (diesel generator and
appropriately sized battery-backed UPS) to go with it. :-)
Have fun!
about 0.2% of its list price in around 7 years. And,
with 2GB ram,
it's got more memory on its processor than I do in my fairly fast/
capable (very OT) PC...
Wow, twice the amount of RAM in my SparcServer 1000 (since we're
mentioning off-topic computer systems) :-)
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