The Retrocomputing Thread

[Red-Machine]

Awesome sauce, Bells!

[Pitkin]

1571... now that was fast loader compared to tapes before. x) Wish I had a working drive like that still. ._.

[Red-Machine]

I had an Oceanic drive which was rated at 30-40% faster than the 1571. :3

[Paul]

I just found something interesting... a big, old IBM AS/400 9406E.
Those monsters were built around 1990 and were then quite fast (35 MHz I think)

If everything goes smoothly this machine will be mine very soon

[Bella]

Oh wow, lucky! I'd love to bring home an old server or mini... but right now my budget/space/time only allows for micros. -.-

[Paul]

budget isn't the problem... the machine most probably won't go for much money.
I just have to think of a way to convince my dad to travel with me to Vienna and pick up the machine

When he comes home today it's gonna be like: "Hi dad, just shot a 80 kilo heavy AS/400..."

[NejinOniwa]

80 kilo's ain't much. At work, the heaviest pieces I work with are just short of that...
Needless to say, it's not very fun to work with those. -_-

[Dr. Kraus]

Vienna

Österreich...?

[Paul]

Österreich!

[Dr. Kraus]

Ah, the land of my great grandparents!

Such a beautiful country! I can't wait to visit in the summer!

[NejinOniwa]

Jawohl. Give us northerners some of those Alps, Would You Kindly?

[Dr. Kraus]

NO, ours.

You can have France's mountains though!

[Paul]

COme here and get 'em

[Paul]

Tomorrow I'm gonna get my AS/400 *sing*
Kinda unexpected, but the guy I got it from includes a second, more modern machine (they're cleaning out their old computers and don't wanna scrap them) <3

I just hope that the tapes with the LIC are there, the passwords are known and the license of the OS is valid...else I'm gonna have two noisy room heaters (the OS is incredibly hard to come by and requrires to be reinstalled if no valid license is there, which you can only do if you've got the (MU)LIC tapes)

Pics will follow

[NejinOniwa]

This is becoming quite bloody interesting. -w- Please do provide~