20 Mar
2004
20 Mar
'04
10:40 p.m.
IBM ES/9000 with peripherals:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085144986&categ…
--Bill
21 Mar
21 Mar
3:04 a.m.
IBM ES/9000 with peripherals:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085144986&categ…
--Bill
Interesting. I see the seller is brand-new on eBay. If I read the
description right it looks like it's 10 racks. I don't know what it
would take to get it up and running, but wouldn't that be cool :^)
It would be interesting to know what the reserve is set at the
opening bid of $1600 seems, how shall I put it, ambitious?
Seriously though, what are the odds of it going for anything other than scrap?
Zane
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3:29 a.m.
On Sunday 21 March 2004 12:04, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Damn, that's so close to me. I wish I had space for it. Maybe I don't
really need a bed...
Pat
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IBM ES/9000
with peripherals:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085144986&catego
ry=1479
--Bill
Interesting. I see the seller is brand-new on eBay. If I read the
description right it looks like it's 10 racks. I don't know what it
would take to get it up and running, but wouldn't that be cool :^)
It would be interesting to know what the reserve is set at the
opening bid of $1600 seems, how shall I put it, ambitious?
Seriously though, what are the odds of it going for anything other
than scrap?
Zane 
4:49 a.m.
New subject: Seriously big iron on Ebay BED!
Bed? Heck put a ladder up the side of one rack cab. and throw the mattress
on top of the cluster of racks!
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
address:
coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat(a)computer-refuge.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: Seriously big iron on Ebay
On Sunday 21 March 2004 12:04, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Damn, that's so close to me. I wish I had space for it. Maybe I don't
really need a bed...
Pat
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Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
IBM
ES/9000 with peripherals:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085144986&catego
ry=1479
--Bill
Interesting. I see the seller is brand-new on eBay. If I read the
description right it looks like it's 10 racks. I don't know what it
would take to get it up and running, but wouldn't that be cool :^)
It would be interesting to know what the reserve is set at the
opening bid of $1600 seems, how shall I put it, ambitious?
Seriously though, what are the odds of it going for anything other
than scrap?
Zane 
8:30 a.m.
New subject: Seriously big iron on Ebay BED!
Bed? Heck put a ladder up the side of one rack cab.
and throw
the mattress on top of the cluster of racks!
With talk like this, anybody want to admit to having a floor fail out
from under their collection? This stuff Is heavy.
Personally I'll admit to having a few 1" deflections here and there.
Nothing worse. Yet. <g>
John A.
11:12 a.m.
New subject: Seriously big iron on Ebay BED!
On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:30, John Allain wrote:
Well, I *hope* mine doesn't, as it's a concrete slab foundation...
though my S/390 does depress the carpeting quite a bit.
And Ed, I can't really put my mattress on top of the racks, as if
they're 7ft tall, the mattress adds about 8", and I know I'm thicker
than 4"...
Wow, to think I actually took the time to consider that.... I can't
wait to graduate and move into somewhere that doesn't suck so much.
Pat
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Bed? Heck
put a ladder up the side of one rack cab. and throw
the mattress on top of the cluster of racks!
With talk like this, anybody want to admit to having a floor fail out
from under their collection? This stuff Is heavy.
Personally I'll admit to having a few 1" deflections here and there.
Nothing worse. Yet. <g>
5:18 p.m.
New subject: Seriously big iron on Ebay BED!
yea the short ceilings will get ya... forgot about that... have giant tall
ones here. actually could stack racks two high and then would need a real
tall ladder... but at the old museum building we are cursed with short
ceilings... TIME TO BUY A NEW BUILDING!
ed!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat(a)computer-refuge.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Seriously big iron on Ebay BED!
On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:30, John Allain wrote:
Well, I *hope* mine doesn't, as it's a concrete slab foundation...
though my S/390 does depress the carpeting quite a bit.
And Ed, I can't really put my mattress on top of the racks, as if
they're 7ft tall, the mattress adds about 8", and I know I'm thicker
than 4"...
Wow, to think I actually took the time to consider that.... I can't
wait to graduate and move into somewhere that doesn't suck so much.
Pat
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Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
Bed?
Heck put a ladder up the side of one rack cab. and throw
the mattress on top of the cluster of racks!
With talk like this, anybody want to admit to having a floor fail out
from under their collection? This stuff Is heavy.
Personally I'll admit to having a few 1" deflections here and there.
Nothing worse. Yet. <g>
8:42 a.m.
New subject: Ebay categories (was: Seriously big iron on Ebay)
IBM ES/9000 with peripherals:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085144986&categ…
To the poster who earlier had complained about eBay's
categories having been messed up, notice here. The Category is:
Computers & Networking
Networking
Mainframe, DEC, VAX, AS/400
DEC, Digital Equipment Corp
1./ This attempts to say that larger computers are in fact networking
equipment, since they are not PC's.
2./ Many listers therein (if you look) seem to like saying that IBM
AS400's and other equipment qualify as "DEC" equipment.
Both pretty bad. Guess that makes your point.
VCM starting to look better and better...
John A.
2:22 p.m.
New subject: Ebay categories (was: Seriously big iron on Ebay)
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, John Allain wrote:
VCM starting to look better and better...
VCM *is* better.
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22 Mar
22 Mar
9:39 a.m.
IBM ES/9000 with peripherals:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085144986&categ…
It is just a 9221 (the wimpy ES/9000). Nice, but not that big.
William Donzelli
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