Anybody live in Chile?

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, William Donzelli wrote:

> 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.

Well, I'm certainly trying to do my part to keep the record straight ;)

> > 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).

Pfeh.  That's modern stuff.  I'm after 400 series accounting machines
myself ;)

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