12 Jan
2011
12 Jan
'11
7:10 p.m.
Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a problem with this IBM 1401
Data Center:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
(I have no connection with this seller or listing)
12 Jan
12 Jan
7:40 p.m.
Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a problem
with this IBM 1401
Data Center:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
Veeryyy powerful datacenter :D I imagine what cooling requeriments are
:D
10:30 p.m.
On 1/12/11 7:10 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a problem
with this IBM 1401
Data Center:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
(I have no connection with this seller or listing)
A beautiful piece of work. Was this some sort of a marketing model?
Does anyone know?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
10:35 p.m.
Okay, somebody needs to pick that up, either Al for the CHM or Sellam or
Evan.... put that on display, that is just too damned cool !!!
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 1/12/11 7:10 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a
problem with this IBM 1401
Data Center:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
(I have no connection with this seller or listing)
A beautiful piece of work. Was this some sort of a marketing model?
Does anyone know?
-Dave
10:40 p.m.
Absolutely. Shit, I'd love it have it in my living room.
-Dave
On 1/12/11 10:35 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Okay, somebody needs to pick that up, either Al for
the CHM or Sellam or
Evan.... put that on display, that is just too damned cool !!!
Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 1/12/11 7:10 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
>> Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a problem with this IBM 1401
>> Data Center:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
>>
>> (I have no connection with this seller or listing)
>
> A beautiful piece of work. Was this some sort of a marketing model?
> Does anyone know?
>
> -Dave
>
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
10:52 p.m.
I think they were in the sales reps kit, to show the customer how it would
fit in their building, and to visualize a layout.
if its not the case here, it was in many other industries.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Absolutely. Shit, I'd love it have it in my living room.
-Dave
On 1/12/11 10:35 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Okay, somebody needs to pick that up, either Al
for the CHM or Sellam or
Evan.... put that on display, that is just too damned cool !!!
Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 1/12/11 7:10 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
>
>> Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a problem with this IBM 1401
>> Data Center:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
>>
>> (I have no connection with this seller or listing)
>>
>
> A beautiful piece of work. Was this some sort of a marketing model?
> Does anyone know?
>
> -Dave
>
>
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
11:05 p.m.
On 2011 Jan 12, at 7:35 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Okay, somebody needs to pick that up, either Al for
the CHM or Sellam
or Evan.... put that on display, that is just too damned cool !!!
There have been links for sales of sets like this mentioned on the list
previously but I think they were folded cardboard, not the detailed
wood and metal of this set.
The ebay page linked to this:
http://ibmcollectables.com/360holocaust.html
Great story, Bob. (.. now we know who to blame)
And speaking therein of 360 front panels:
ebay 150541712482
IBM 360/50 front panel goes for $5600.
--
From the compuserve thread, a little prescience about this hobby:
http://www.gsbrown.org/compuserve/valuable-junk-1989-05/
11:54 p.m.
On 1/12/11 7:10 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
>
> Short on space, power, and cooling? ?Not a problem with this IBM 1401
> Data Center:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
>
> (I have no connection with this seller or listing)
Awesome - I saw a set like this many years ago (let's say mid-90s) in
the window of an "antiques" (junk) store in St. Charles, IL. I think
they wanted around $250 for it, and those were the days I was scraping
together $5 for meals, so it wasn't going to happen for me. I always
assumed it was a salesman's kit, for helping to lay our datacenters
(maybe it came with a big sheet of scaled grid paper to represent
floor tiles?)
Well, I'll be bidding...
-j
13 Jan
13 Jan
11:14 p.m.
On 1/12/2011 6:10 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Short on space, power, and cooling? Not a problem
with this IBM 1401
Data Center:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190490102075
(I have no connection with this seller or listing)
That's quite interesting. Any one have any idea what that is to the
left of the 1402? I think the seller's description calls it a card
reader, but I don't recall ever seeing one. There was a 1406 memory
expansion unit about that size, but I don't remember it having quite
that look.
Also, I don't remember the 1407 (typewriter console thingy) having that
control panel on the right side.
Of course, these models may have been created before the actual hardware
design was complete. BTW, 729 tape drives were never "glued together"
like those either IMHO.
I've no idea what the 3 unmarked boxes behind the tape drives are
either. Anyone?
Later,
Charlie C.
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