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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Real-Time OS, Lasers, and Robots
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References: <1993Aug31.091043.5995@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 02:00:14 GMT
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jeremi@$LOGNAME@ee.ualberta.ca (William Jeremiah) writes:
>I have a (my own personal) IBM 4331 mainframe, associated disk drives, tape
>drives, etc and about one hundred terminals.   Anyone have any use for them?
>Mail me for info.  Now you ask:  Why does he have something big enough to
>fill a room in his basement?  Well I was going to start a public access Inet
>site (can you believe a city this big doesn't have one?) only the UofA has
>a connection and only for staff and students.  But it looks like I can't come
>up with the $40K/yr that ARC wants for a connection.  

      It's sad.  Somebody else was trying to give away a UNIVAC 1100/80
(a physically big mainframe with less compute power than most 486 machines)
a few months back.  No takers.  There's no home for those monsters.

      A 4331, though, is small enough that somebody might have a use for it.

					John Nagle
