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AllaN01Bear

(19,545 posts) Sat Dec 3, 2022, 01:09 PM Dec 2022

watch when (at the time ) when a 16 yo buys a ibm main frame computer

What is a mainframe? Mainframe systems are computers able to process billions of calculations and transactions in real-time, securely and reliably.
read down thread in yt comments , he at the time now works for ibm.
id tear things apart and mom would say , now put it back together.

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watch when (at the time ) when a 16 yo buys a ibm main frame computer (Original Post) AllaN01Bear Dec 2022 OP

Very cool! Reminds me of when I first saw plug boards for programming sorters/collators/printers erronis Dec 2022 #1

erronis

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1. Very cool! Reminds me of when I first saw plug boards for programming sorters/collators/printers