IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 16:06:37 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings 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.

11 minutes?

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