IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

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From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 13:49:31 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:

> Who else on this list owns a mainframe? What the heck do you DO with it?

Heat your house.

Microsoft's big '10 was named "heatingplant" or something
grammatically close. I had an account on it for about 11 minutes
in the early 1980's.
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 13:49:31 GMT

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