Scrapping and re-use (was Re: Talking of old IBM systems)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 12:05 PM -0400 3/24/10, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>so since they were large and green (because of the solder mask), one
>of our student employees nailed a bunch of them to a wooden frame in
>an irregular isosceles triangle pattern and made a "COMBOARD Christmas
>Tree" (using 9-track write rings as ornaments and tractor-feed
>tearoffs as garlands).  Because the boards were rendered more unusable
>(as computer peripherals) by drilling nail holes in them, it was
>considered an acceptable re-use.  I wish I had a picture of it still.

The mainframe site that I worked at in the Navy in the early 90's 
took disk packs after degassing them and disassembled them for the 
platters.  When someone transferred to another command everyone would 
engrave a message onto the platter, and it would get framed, and 
given to that person.  I still have mine, though I'm not sure where 
in the garage it is. :-)

Zane



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