On 22/12/06 15:22, "Phil Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At that time IBM charged $200,000 to open the doors. > > British Telecom, once advised of this policy, went _NUTS_. We called it "Lego > bricks" - > hardly a week went by without a request to take an engine out of box X and put > it in box Y. And a wonderful company called Enterprise Computer Services made a very good living for a number of years upgrading, downgrading, and crossgrading 3090s, by doing just that with IBM's engines. Made much easier once a good late friend and colleague had essentially hacked the VM system that was the 3090 console.
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