Re: Thank-You, Midrange, and David Gibbs

Larry "The ULTIMATE Tool Man" Bolhuis !!

I LOVE it !!

I remember when we FINALLY ditched the more and more frequently crashing 9337 
disk
drives a number of years back, we ended up with a BUNCH of the cabinets and NO 
ONE
would take them. Our Maintenance department heard about them and snatched them 
up
for the home workshops, etc. !

I'd LOVE to see the JPG's Larry !

Thanks and hope you have/had a GREAT weekend !

Chuck

Larry Bolhuis wrote:

> > 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)
>
> --
> Larry Bolhuis         |
> Arbor Solutions, Inc  | Two rules to success in life:
> (616) 451-2500        | 1. Never tell people everything you know.
> lbolhui@ibm.net       |
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