No - this is what it is :
> It is a Hitachi S-3600 2 GFlop vector system, ECL and all that, and
> is the only one outside Japan. Spare parts are not available, and
> most maintenance documentation is in Japanese. And, yes, I do mean
> 10-15 tons :-)
> We should certainly be happy to dispose of it as a working system,
> subject to a written guarantee that it wouldn't be passed on to
> Iran, Iraq, North Korea etc. (yes, really), but I can assure you
> that nobody sane would be interested.
>
Sounds great! I'd be happy to help out anyone who had the space to
relocate it. I'm in Cambridge.
Phil.
phil_at_var.org
phil_at_cambridge-design.co.uk
Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com wrote:
>
> Kevan Heydon reported Nick Maclaren as haveing said:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm tempted to suggest the Cambridge University Computer Preservation
> Society, just to annoy them :-)
>
> I suspect that this is the old IBM 3084 that ran Phoenix. Any Cambridge
> people with more info? More to the point, what is to become of the
> software? Tapes? etc.
>
> I'd love it but I (a) have nowhere to put it and (b) have difficulty
> transporting anything over 1/2 ton.
>
> Philip.
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