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Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from a... by jandrese on Monday May 20, 2019 @03:16PM (#19963944)
That seemed like a very permanent installation for someone who is just tinkering with the machine. Running all of the cables under false floor is a huge hassle and makes fixing problems harder.
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Re:Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from a... by LeonM on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:16AM (#19981416)
Don't underestimate the amount of work a true tinkerer is willing to perform to get the system running 'as it should have been'.

But looking at the pictures of part 3 I have to conclude that the electrical installation was certainly not done professionally. In fact: the mains wiring wouldn't even pass inspection by German law.

So tinkerer or not, I doubt this was the place where this multi-million machine (in Deutsche Marks, that is) would have been installed originally.

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