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Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from a... by sjakobi on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:16AM (#19959989)
How can you tell?
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Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from a... by duiker101 on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:59AM (#19960365)
I don't know how mkreis could tell but I did notice that in one of the photos you can distinctly see the Puma logo[1] and I thought it was curious. I guess this explains it.

[1] https://ibms360.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DSC_0062-10...

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Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from a... by mkreis on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:45AM (#19961587)
It's the picture which duiker101 already pointed to, the description of the auction, which mentions a "Puma machine" and the fact that the room was cluttered with sports gear (mentioned in the article).

Additionally Puma was founded very close by and most likely the company was renting out / buying some office space for the accounting division.

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Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from a... by skellera on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:48AM (#19961630)
It says in the linked article in the translated auction ad.

That linked with the logo would make sense.

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