I think David meant He saw them working on refurbishing the panel
itself. LCM Staff designed and
Built the circuitry to generate the pseudo blinkenlights effect, along with
converting to LEDs. As I recall, the
Panel was the only thing left of the original 360/91. I do remember Paul Allen
had spent a lot of time looking
For a restorable 360, ending up with mostly bad tips. Flew a Guy to a storage
building in Australia, only to
Discover in person....nope. An article mentioned that, since 360s were pretty
much leased machines, they
Returned to IBM for summary execution.....
The LCM was working on rebuilding a 360/30 they did locate, a
considerably smaller entry level 360.
When I last saw it they had considerable power supply rebuilding to accomplish.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2024 7:43 PM
To: David C. Jenner <[email protected]>
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Fred Cisin <[email protected]>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: auction starting in 50 minutes
>>> And perhaps craziest of all, $189k for a 360/91 console display.
>>> Just the lights panel, nothing more.
>> Well, that might be all thatthe interior decorators wanted, for
>> hanging on the wall
On Fri, 13 Sep 2024, David C. Jenner wrote:
> This was from the 360/91 at UCLA when I was there in the 1970s. I
> recall seeing them working on refurbishing it when I was last at the
> LCM a few years ago.
If the machine was being refurbished, why was the console display separated
from the machine?
