University of Michigan Property Depot report

Jason McBrien jbmcb at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 29 09:35:35 CDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: University of Michigan Property Depot report


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> Could you describe it?

I'll go back next week and take a picture, if it's still there.
>
> I have been looking for references to an IBM 9 track that came after the
> 3420. Their biggest feature was that each drive had a huge green LED
> matrix panel mounted above to let you know what the drive was doing from a
> football field away.

They had a bunch of those at the property depot a few months ago, along with
an ancient RS/6000 and a big DASD array. I'm considering as my next car a
Chevy Avalanche so I can start picking this stuff up. I'll just need
subsidies for gas :)

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> William Donzelli
> aw288 at osfn.org
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