A friend of mine just called and said he saw some
older IBM stuff at the
junk yard and was letting me know. He indicated there was an IBM box with a
vertical 8" floppy drive with the box about 12"w x 30"h x 30" or so
deep.
There was also a tape drive which had already been scrounged. Does this
sound like something I should take a look at and get? He used the number
5360 but really wasn't sure what the computer and peripherals were.
That sounds like the early mid-sized S/36. The later ones had 5 1/4"
drives.
S/36s are falling fast to the Y2K thing, being pushed out of the way by
AS/400s. Not a rare peice, but soon will probably be.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net