15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
11 a.m.
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?
Pat
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15 Apr
15 Apr
11:21 a.m.
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!
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11:54 a.m.
On Friday 15 April 2005 10:21, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Indeed, it appears to be a System/34.
Pat
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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! 
12:10 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan 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
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! 
2:11 p.m.
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!
2:14 p.m.
> 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! 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
2:16 p.m.
Hmm, looks like they also have the printer that I
loaded before I went to sleep....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74946&item=
5185235633&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74946&item=5…
&rd=1
And the terminal!
- Ashley
2:28 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ashley Carder wrote:
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
Having moved one from Arkansas to Iowa, I can tell you that it isn't a
task to be taken on lightly. Particularly without a lift-deck.
I'm guessing the unit weighs around 900lbs, is approximately 7' long, 3'
deep and 4' high.
The machine is on good quality casters, so it'll roll like a dream, but
it's extreme weight makes it a royal pain in the butt to move.
If you'd like a chuckle, you can view my attempts to move it using a Ford
F150, a winch and a pair of lawnmower ramps:
http://www.kiwigeek.com/hjp/comps/IBM_s34/PickUp/
JP
10:19 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:28:36 -0500 (CDT)
JP Hindin <jplist at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ashley Carder wrote:
About a year ago I didn't bid on a forklift that sold at a local
municipal auction. It sold for $2 because nobody else bid on it either.
It needed new batteries but otherwise was probably fine. I don't have
any sort of flat cement surface to use it on, in addition to other
reasons I didn't bid on it. It'd be useful for the scale of CC museum
operation that operates out of a poured cement floor building (I have a
gravel driveway, and a garage infested with mice)
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
Having moved one from Arkansas to Iowa, I can tell you that it isn't a
task to be taken on lightly. Particularly without a lift-deck.
I'm guessing the unit weighs around 900lbs, is approximately 7' long,
3' deep and 4' high.
The machine is on good quality casters, so it'll roll like a dream,
but it's extreme weight makes it a royal pain in the butt to move.
If you'd like a chuckle, you can view my attempts to move it using a
Ford F150, a winch and a pair of lawnmower ramps:
http://www.kiwigeek.com/hjp/comps/IBM_s34/PickUp/
16 Apr
16 Apr
3:13 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
About a year ago I didn't bid on a forklift that
sold at a local
municipal auction. It sold for $2 because nobody else bid on it either.
It needed new batteries but otherwise was probably fine. I don't have
any sort of flat cement surface to use it on, in addition to other
reasons I didn't bid on it. It'd be useful for the scale of CC museum
operation that operates out of a poured cement floor building (I have a
gravel driveway, and a garage infested with mice)
ANY forklift these days is worth big bucks. You could've bought it and
turned it around for some number WELL over $2 without lifting a finger to
move it.
Anyway, mine was effectively free. Right time/right place kind of thing
with a nice client ;)
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4:46 a.m.
On Friday 15 April 2005 21:19, Scott Stevens wrote:
About a year ago I didn't bid on a forklift that
sold at a local
municipal auction. It sold for $2 because nobody else bid on it
either. It needed new batteries but otherwise was probably fine. I
Assuming this is the one I'm thinking of (in the Indianapolis auction),
I'm rather annoyed I missed bidding on it if it went for that little.
I figured it'd go for a lot more than I wanted to spend.
*Sigh*
Pat
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5:34 a.m.
On 4/16/05, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
On Friday 15 April 2005 21:19, Scott Stevens wrote:
I'll bet... I would have been *ecstatic* to get a fork for a few bucks
plus new batteries. I even have a 32'x50' building with a concrete
floor to wheel it around in...
-ethan
About a year ago I didn't bid on a forklift
that sold at a local
municipal auction. It sold for $2 because nobody else bid on it
either. It needed new batteries but otherwise was probably fine. I
Assuming this is the one I'm thinking of (in the Indianapolis auction),
I'm rather annoyed I missed bidding on it if it went for that little.
I figured it'd go for a lot more than I wanted to spend.
1 p.m.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:46:39 -0500
Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
On Friday 15 April 2005 21:19, Scott Stevens wrote:
No, this was at a Franklin municipal auction in Johnson County, IN,
about a year ago. I got three nice open 19" racks at that auction for
$7.
About a year ago I didn't bid on a forklift
that sold at a local
municipal auction. It sold for $2 because nobody else bid on it
either. It needed new batteries but otherwise was probably fine. I
Assuming this is the one I'm thinking of (in the Indianapolis
auction), I'm rather annoyed I missed bidding on it if it went for
that little. I figured it'd go for a lot more than I wanted to spend.
15 Apr
15 Apr
2:53 p.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!
12:20 p.m.
Looks like a System/34. I would love to get the software from if he has any.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat at computer-refuge.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: Identify this IBM box?
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?
Pat
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The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
12:33 p.m.
Follow-up he has both a system/34 and a system/36 for sale. Boy wish I was
closer to him to bid on all the items.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat at computer-refuge.org>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:00 AM
Subject: Identify this IBM box?
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?
Pat
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The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
12:50 p.m.
Keys wrote:
Follow-up he has both a system/34 and a system/36 for
sale. Boy wish
I was closer to him to bid on all the items.
Well bid a $1.00 and keep the railroads in business with the shipping $$$'s.
The real problem of course is not the shipping $$$'s but the fact that
nobody
can pack and ship products and none of this cardboard box stuff ... I
want real
wood if I pay over $1,000 . Now 25% to 30% seems reasonable for shipping.
Ben alias woodelf
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