IBM 3088 - Dummy questions

[Sridhar Ayengar]

dwight elvey wrote:
>> From: bear at typewritten.org
>>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:54 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>>>> I am asking these questions because I might get hands on 3 of them
>>>> and according to my contact 2 out of 3 are still NOS.
>>>> So I wonder if I (as a DEC/Unix Guy) can make any use out of them.
>>> Likely no, but there are people here that can.
>> I certainly can use a 3088 or two.
>>
>> I've never seen one, though. How big are they?
>>
>> ok
>> bear
> 
> Hi
>  I never saw a 3088 but I did see a 3081. As I recall, it was about
> 16 full height racks layed out like a cross except it had two cross
> bars. There were a lot of changes between these models.

Nowhere near the same kind of hardware.  A 3081 is a large system.  A 
3088 is a peripheral.

Peace...  Sridhar