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tgflynn
on March 28, 2016
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An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video]
In that case I'm not sure I see the point in buying something like this just to run Linux. Linux looks pretty much the same no matter what it's running on.
icelancer
on March 28, 2016
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To preserve history and collect it.
tgflynn
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Sure I get that but if you can't run the software that was/is most frequently used on these machines then you're only preserving half the history.
srcmap
on March 29, 2016
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To learn and keep the basement nice and warm (all 6kw of them) . :-)
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