IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

From: Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net>
Date: Thu Feb 24 11:53:02 2005

> > south (I know of Paul in Augusta, GA and Ed in Columbia, SC). Although
we
> > drive pickup trucks, talk slow, eat lots of pig cooked in a pit over
hickory
> > coals, our dogs lay on the porch and wag their tails, and we sleep with
our
> > shotgun nearby, we just don't have the urge to erect another building on
our
> > farms to house IBM mainframes.
> >
> > I'll let the 19 year old guy have the corner on that market for now.
:-)
>
> Rednecks are the same all over. Even in the frozen North Woods where I
> live. Lots of people think its a Southern thang, but it ain't.
>
> Though I do have a basement datacenter. And my dogs lie on the
> furniture.

Yep, I've had the opportunity to visit with rural folks (not necessarily
rednecks!)
in Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, and elsewhere, and they are all
pretty
much the same. The old hound dog outside still smells like a dog and the
folks
still cut and split their firewood to burn in the fireplace or wood stove.

Ashley
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 11:53:02 GMT