FWD: Large computer in the UK...

From: Kevan Heydon <kevan_at_heydon.org>
Date: Wed Jan 6 05:32:21 1999

I found this on one of the uk news groups. It is out of my league but
someone might be interested.

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Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/
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From: nmm1_at_cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc
Subject: Decommissioning large computers
Date: 5 Jan 1999 19:09:37 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <76to1h$oet$1_at_pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
25 years ago, this was a sufficiently common activity that there were
companies specialising in it ....
We are likely to want to decommission a large computer for scrap in
the near future, and are trying to find a company that will do it
most economically and with least damage to the machine room.  It is
about 14 tons (I think), and includes a lot of heavy copper cabling,
and may have more salvageable materials in the main boxes.
Any serious suggestions as to who to approach gratefully received;
I won't ask if anyone has done this recently, for obvious reasons :-)
Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
Email:  nmm1_at_cam.ac.uk
Tel.:  +44 1223 334761    Fax:  +44 1223 334679
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