Tony Cole's Cray-1 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Apr 1998

Is the reason those old radio/phonograph boxes are not being thrown
away is that noone notice the cover and thinks it's just a pretty
dresser w/o drawers :)? Also hideaway sewing machines.
I do see many of them in thrift stores, though. It was a good idea,
to keep technology invisible. Now, it's the other way around.
Cover EVERYthing with black and beige boxes.
Of course, the System/36 (I think, maybe not) was built into a desk.
And then there were the teletypes (are the ones that are mostly used
as examples of teletypes ASR-33?), printers, etc.

...
   S/360s are
very rare (thousands made, maybe a dozen left). 
So the moral of the story is that manufacturers should build furniture
into their computer systems, so when the computer is obsolete, the  system
...
 will live on as furniture. :-) 

-- Doug

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