Big Iron Alert

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri Apr 13 09:52:24 2001

Just went to the University of Michigan property disposition this morning,
they had a full blown IBM S3390-3 mainframe with two storage array cabinets,
three pallets worth of Wang VS-100 minicomputer, an SGI IRIS 2400 (2 boxes
worth) and an SGI IRIS 4D-something-or-other. If anyone has the means to
pick these up please do, I've seen UofM PD throw away perfectly good
machines (A *NEW* IBM 370, never used) in their giant, oversized dumpster.
The S3390 looks to be in mint condition, take well care of, the wang looks a
little dinged up, the IRIS 2400 looks like somebody drove over it, those
guys don't give minis any respect. No prices on anything, I think the VS100
is up for auction, so prices on the 3390 are probably negotiable. I've seen
them give things away if someone would just pick them up.

Personally I picked up a Sun monitor, finally, and a Quadra 900 chocked full
of strange NuBus cards. Looks to be a National Instruments ADC board, and a
Greenspring(?) Computers servo controller board. Time to build my battlebot!
Also picked up a SCSI Magneto-Optical drive, maybe I can read all those NeXT
MO disks I have laying around...
Received on Fri Apr 13 2001 - 09:52:24 BST