Mainframe stuff...

From: Bob Brown <bbrown_at_harper.cc.il.us>
Date: Fri Sep 21 13:45:17 2001

I use an old, gutted ibm 3274 terminal control unit to house my vcr's and
be a stand for my tv.

(it was actually my wife's idea...gee, one of those old boxes would
make a great tv stand)!

-Bob


>On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:06:12AM +0200, jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> > > I've grown out of my "computers bigger than I am" phase
> > I hope that I will never grow up. ;-)
>
>Well, part of it was realizing that a lot of the machines I collected
>because they were free/cheap/gonna-be-tossed were doing nothing but
>taking up (needed) space in the garage. I will NOT toss anything that
>I can give away, however - I gave away a bunch of 4/330s, 4/630s, etc,
>and tried to give away the 4/690 backplane/blower/power supplies for
>two years before I gave up and gave it to the trash man.
>
> > I know of some people that reused empty cabinet sized computer
> > enclosures. The VAX-Bar is the most famos. There is somebody in the
> > Netherlands, that puted a refrigerator in the enclosure of a dead SGI
> > Challenge. The same was made by some people at a german Sun office for
> > internal use...
>
>If I had the time, etc..
>
>Bill
>
>--
>Bill Bradford
>mrbill_at_mrbill.net
>Austin, TX

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