IBM Salvage?

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Mon Oct 5 23:06:35 1998

> A friend of mine just called and said he saw some older IBM stuff at the
> junk yard and was letting me know. He indicated there was an IBM box with a
> vertical 8" floppy drive with the box about 12"w x 30"h x 30" or so deep.
> There was also a tape drive which had already been scrounged. Does this
> sound like something I should take a look at and get? He used the number
> 5360 but really wasn't sure what the computer and peripherals were.

That sounds like the early mid-sized S/36. The later ones had 5 1/4"
drives.

S/36s are falling fast to the Y2K thing, being pushed out of the way by
AS/400s. Not a rare peice, but soon will probably be.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net


 
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