Identify this IBM box?

[Ashley Carder]

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > 
> > > The seller (obviously) doesn't know much about it, but it 
> appears to be
> > > a fairly large deskside IBM machine from around 1980.
> > >
> > > Link to auction:
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5185251356
> > >
> > > Ideas, anyone?
> > 
> > Looks like a System/3x?
> > 
> > Don't pass up this "RARE FIND", folks!
> 
> I'm unaware if many IBMs around that era shared chassis, but that is an
> identical configuration to my System/34, from the 8" jukebox to the
> programmers panel.
> 
> Two of these just came up free for pickup in Canada (Post here to
> ccmp only a couple days ago).
> 
> (I'm not sure about its $30k tag, the woman I picked my /34 from said she
> paid $155k for hers in 1980)
> 
> JP


This stuff is about an hour from my house.  I could
get it and possibly store it for someone.  I have a
shop that has some room left in it.  Anyone out there
on the list interested in this stuff if I get it?  
I'm in Leesville, South Carolina, about 50 miles 
north of Orangeburg, where the stuff is located.  I
can't remember... how heavy is that S/34?  I remember
that it was about 4+ feet tall and maybe 6 or 8 feet
deep.  I can remember one night when I was playing
substitute system operator, and I was printing the
"billing register" at about 3:00am.  Every 30 or 60
minutes, I'd have to reload the big line printer
with the special paper.  I got sleepy after reloading
the printer and I curled up behind the S/34 and went
to sleep.

BTW, my first real job after college was programming
in RPG on an IBM System/34 from 1981 to 1983 or so.
Then I moved on the the mainframe and COBOL and 
Command Level CICS.

Let me know if anyone's interested in making a road
trip to S. Carolina to get this stuff if I bid on
it and pick it up.

Ashley