IBM 3088 - Dummy questions

[Sridhar Ayengar]

dwight elvey wrote:
>> From: ploopster at gmail.com
>>
>> 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
> 
> Hi
>  That sounds better. I couldn't imagine someone wanting to
> power up a 3081. Between water cooler and motor generator,
> it used more than $20K USD a month in electricity.
>  We also had a couple 43?? computers as well. These were
> waste high and about as long as a couch. I think these were
> also water cooled.

I would.  That's a beautiful machine.

In fact, for a number of years, I ran a newer water-cooled IBM machine 
continuously.

Peace...  Sridhar