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Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

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Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

Connor Krukosky, an 18-year-old college student and vintage computer collector, tells how he bought an IBM z890 mainframe and got it running at home. The talk was given at SHARE in San Antonio in March 2016.

HN commenters cite it as an entertaining example of a teenager buying, hosting and booting a real mainframe.

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