But it is indeed a computer in its own right -- though a rather odd sort of
beast.
Jay
At 08:20 AM 4/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>It's a communications controller for an IBM mainframe computer.
>
>You hooked it up to your mainframe, put another comm controller on the other
>end of a leased line, and you could have terminals/printers etc. hooked up
>to a remote location.
>
>-Bob
>
>
>>List,
>>
>> There is an IBM 3725 available in Champaign/Urbana Illinois at a local
>>scrapper.
>>
>> It is large, blue, and runs on three phase (as far as I could tell).
>>
>> Please let me know if anyone is interested in saving it. No docs, no
>>media, no nothing... Just a large heavy blue computer. I certainly have
>>neither the space nor the juice to house this beast.
>>
>> I'm also quite interested in what it is.
>>
>> Thanks for your replies, and please email if you have an interest in
>>the system.
>>
>>
>> - Dan Linder / dlinder_at_uiuc.edu / upside_at_mcs.net -
>> - Riot sounds start riots. / keep talking... -
>
>Bob Brown
>Saved by grace
>Intranet Sysadmin Page: http://info1.harper.cc.il.us/~bbrown
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Received on Tue Apr 25 2000 - 21:44:47 BST