IBM 3088 - Dummy questions

[Bob Brown]

Sounds like 4341 (or maybe 4331)'s (waist high, couch wide).
They were air-cooled.
-Bob 


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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of dwight elvey
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:56 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: IBM 3088 - Dummy questions


> 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.
Dwight

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