RED ALERT! Mainframes Available - Vancouver BC!

From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <(jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net)>
Date: Fri Aug 7 19:05:30 1998

> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 20:49:00 -0700
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca>
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: RED ALERT! Mainframes Available - Vancouver BC!

> Hi William:
>
> I've never heard of these, but am supposing that they are some type of heat
> sink.

Nooo... under that heatsink, those is vital chips so heavy with
copper, thick plated of gold. (That's why the scapper is anxious to
grab this one.) No wonder they're so hard to find now for
replacements.

Oh, I have no idea how big or how easy to take that module apart to
expose the circuit board loaded iwth those chipsets on it? And how
big the heatsink attached, (I know if that is big that would be
heavy)

Plans: have one of these as chat piece but not to destory
one for anyone's sake for future....

Jason D.

>
> If you can give me a better description I can see if I can get some. I will
> be going back to the machine room next week.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> At 05:13 PM 98/08/07 -0400, you wrote:
> >> First, an IBM Mainframe, ES/3090 400-J, several hundred MB RAM, many GB of
> >> DASD (thats HD to us non-big iron folks), 1/4" tape drives, cartridge
> >> tape, consoles, 3270 and newer terminals, chiller (system is water
> >> cooled), power supply unit, media, etc. This system runs MVS, also MTS and
> >> was the main computer for a campus of 20-30,000 for a period of about ten
> >> years. The machine is circa 1986 and is available to anyone who wants it,
> >> and will take it away!! I'd suggest that two to four semi-trailers would
> >> do the job, depending upon how many peripherals one wishes to acquire.
> >
> >Too far away!
> >
> >If at all possible, please grab the TCMs (Thermal Conduction Modules) out
> >of the beast before the scrappers get it. Years from now, when some nut
> >like me tries to fire up a 3090 and discovers a bad chip, those extra TCMs
> >will come in really handy!
> >
> >William Donzelli
> >william_at_ans.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ---
> Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
> mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca
>
>
email: jpero_at_cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
Received on Fri Aug 07 1998 - 19:05:30 BST