Anybody live in Chile?

[William Donzelli]

> There's nothing terribly special about the 3420 drives.  I mean, who
> (beside my insane self) is going to want one?

Those of us that like REAL computers. Not the weenie DEC toys...

>  And if so, for what, other
> than gawking at it?

They are damn good drives - OK, OK, so an "odd" interface...
 
> Same goes for all big IBM iron. 

To extend something that Al K. said a while back - in the future
retrocomputerist are going to have a very slanted view of systems, with
extremely few people saving the mainframes from the 70s thru the 90s. That
is a damn big hole.

> If someone can get down to SA with a big truck, there's actually quite a
> bit of old (in some cases very old) IBM iron floating around down there.

I have started to think that this might be the only way I can get my hands
on a real IBM S/360 or 370 (or 303x or 308x or 309x, and pretty soon,
ES/9000).

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org