Re: Thank-You, Midrange, and David Gibbs

> Glad you enjoyed lurking.  As I recall, you put the S/34 in your
> garage.  Did it at least serve as a nice heater during the winter?

I have IBM 5340 s/n 22607 in my garage as a rolling workbench.  It contains
(where the disk drives used to be) an air compressor and a craftsman tool chest
that rolls out the end on heavy duty drawer slides. In the old CPU cage I have
many trays from cheap plastic fishing tackle boxes stacked with misc nuts, bolts
etc etc.  Where the diskette unit used to be sits a battery charger and a light
on a retractable cord.  Where the power supply sat are shelves for hand and
power tools.  All the doors have had the latches removed because the grounding
clips hold them well enough (and you can never find that crochet hook when you
need it!).  I also wired electrical outlets on the thing and for the final touch
the master power switch actually functions along with the LOAD button to enable
power to the outlets, light, and air compressor.  

Oh, and one other thing, try not to hit it with the car, it's real hard on the
car!

If anyone cares I have a couple JPGs that I could send privatly.

 - Larry

ps the power requirement tag indicates 6.3 amps at 208 volts so the heat output
would be significant! (I can't remember my watts to BTU conversion at the
moment)


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Larry Bolhuis         |
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