IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

[Gordon JC Pearce]

David H. Barr wrote:
> Err... one score and four. My first real exposure to computing was a
> Tandy M1000 the junior high was throwing out. I didn't own a working
> computer of my own until 1996, which was a 486 cobbled out of friends'
> spares.  Do I have to turn in some sort of badge now?
> 
> -dhbarr the abashed.

Nah, pulling computers out of skips and building beige boxes out of crap 
and spares is definitely admissable.  Builds geek cred.

I think everyone here has *something* they hauled out of a skip in daily 
use - in my case it's a couple of hubs.  I swapped the 5-tape DLT 
changer for something, can't remember what now...  Might actually have 
just *given* it to one of my mates.

OTOH I did haul a 5' satellite dish out of a skip last night. 
Long-range wifi, here we come!

Gordon.