Got a call last night to clean out an office....Wish me luck I hope it's more computers than copiers, printers, etc.....
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Got a call last night to clean out an office....Wish me luck I hope it's more computers than copiers, printers, etc.....
Luck!
yeah too! lotsa luck mike
Good luck, let us know what you got!
Okay here is the lowdown....Mainly printers, filing cabinets, metal desk etc....But the big find was two gigantic industrial printers.....One was an IBM 5360 the other a Decision Data Band Printer 6811.....The IBM was so heavy I had to hook my 9k winch to it.....That was with three men cleaning out the office space....It must weigh at least 1000lb easy
My question is however does anyone have any experience with these huge industial printers or do I have a gigantic piece of scrap metal which is not bad considering todays prices.....Any info let me know
Start here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36. Looks like there are two rare processors and rare memory in each unit. The memory alone sells for $96.00. Usually these old printers have a large sheet of Al also. 1000#'s scrap value = $100. You could possibly get this by just pullling out the memory and CPU's and then scrap the rest.
nice haul!
Not much of an ebay guy....Is that where I should try to sell it?....Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremiah
I would say yes sell it on ebay. Not the whole printer just the memory and other boards.
Ok how would I know they are working or just sell as un tested as I have no way to test this ancient equipment....LOL
plug it up, turn it on, see if the lights flash ;)
LOL....I would love to but the cords were everywhere in the way and got cut in the process of moving...Oh well I will decide what to do with these monsters in the morningQuote:
Originally Posted by Bear
rewire the cord its not hard
This beast is a monster remember.....Well over 1000 lbs and moving it around, rewiring etc is just not something I can handle bymyself easily.....I think I might just tear it down and get what I can from it and move on....It was free and was only about 10 miles from the house so either way it's pure profit....Thanks for all your advice and opinions it just boils down to the size of this thing vs. me being able to move it around....LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Dunemaul
lol, nooo, inquiring minds Need to know! lol
LOL I to am intrigued after reading the wikapedia article...This computer cost over $ 100,000 new....This thing is like a super computer from the 80's....I am going to tear into tommorow after I dump a bunch of the other stuff at the yard.....I to am interested and never had anything similar to this
cool! photos, man, photos! :) i was thinking printer, that'll be a cool trip looking in that thing
hek! i'm hooked on it now, i wonder how big the hard drive is in it? i found one in an old nasa computer that weighed 30 pounds. If you've got the 5360-A with the 4mhz CPU, that things probly solid gold! lol (and certainly worth more as a collectors item) I did best with stuff like that using 10 day auction format, starting it (always the pre-list setup too, so it would hit the ground running, and not have to wait 30 minutes for it to show up in the listings, and already be on page 45 or 50 before it even started showing up) early on friday afternoon, then it ran through 2 weekends and a full week, ending on a monday afternoon ( amazing how many spend monday and friday afternoons checking out the sales from their office ;)
The first model of the System/36 was the 5360. It weighed 700 lb (318 kg), cost (US) $100,000 and up, and is believed to have had processor speeds of about 2 MHz and 8 MHz for its two processors, which in 1983 was faster than the "Personal Computers" on the market
it said there were 4 5360s 5360A-5360D
All mine says is IBM 5360 and is just like the pic on the wikepedia page
reckon maybe that coulda been the "A". before they had an "A-D"? either way, it oughta be an interesting toy for a couple days :) i wonder if it's got a boot post, where you can see the cpu speed, ram, hard drive etc. The upper line of those had a 8" floppy disk stack too
http://www.neurotica.com/wiki/File:I...hard-drive.jpg
Found a pic of the hard drive of this monster....LOL
i wonder what the diameter is on the platters.
i think you could sell every piece of that if you advertised it
I tore mine out of the unit it was in before thinking about it, scrapped the unit, saved the hdd, but never tried to test
here's some pictures of it
http://s1205.photobucket.com/albums/...0hard%20drive/
Very kewl Bear....I have been having dreams/nightmares about this monster LOL
I'm jealous. Great find Mike. Have fun.
Okay I have these huge memory drives out.....my dad does ebay what part of these drives should I put on these memory drives.....The are connected to metal harness all kinds of motors etc....Any help would be appreciated
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photos mike
it'll take some time, but you can research part numbers too looking for prices, unless there's only one or two search results, i'll just scroll through the pages looking for a price right in the search results, so many places want you to fill out a form or call for a quote etc, a few places will post a price, and most times i think it'll show up right on the search results pages
I am workin on that I am swamped with work right now gettin ready to tear down another unit
wish i was swamped with work, hek i'd come over there and help ya if i could
bear you can pick me up on the way im inbtween yall mike i work for food, i like to eat :)
lol cory, you'd better pack a lunch, that's a long drive. I lived in nashville for almost 20 years. Moving back here I made 4 trips, loaded truck and trailer, and it woulda paid me to made another load, but i was gettin tired of travelin. Almost exactly 600 miles one way my door there to my door in here
Sorry I didn't get any pics up today but tommorow I promise....The Ibm 5360 yielded a lot of material including high grade boards, transformers as big as a human head...LOL, lots of wire, and the monster memory drives plus about 500lb of scrap metal....Oh well I did that and three other large machines with the help of dear old dad....Picks tommorow I promise
http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/...inreco/026.jpg
NOW WTF....LOL I need a buyer for this anyone interested....Just kidding but these things are heavy with the metal chasis and all probably close to 75lbs....Any ideas from the escrap buyers???? Any help would be appreciated, this is a learning experience for me with this machine and I am trying to share with the group
ewasted is paying 45 cents a pound for hard drives without the board. I wonder if that would apply to these monsters :)
I LOVE this forum ! (As if !) Thanks for the beautiful pics Mike. What a nice thread. congrats again.
Thanks for the kind words......This is probably the only one of these computers I might ever get and me and my dad had fun tearing it down last night....Now back to work
The first model of the S/36 was the 5360. Weighing in at 800 pounds, costing (US) $100,000 and more, it was certainly no laptop, and on a good day it might have cranked up to 20 MHz. But in 1983, it was faster than any of the so-called "Personal Computers (PCs)" you could buy. The 5362 was a mere 150 pounds, and at US $20,000, set the pace for corporate computing.
I am having a hard time finding in any info on this.....I was hoping some of the escrap buyers might chime in here
sorry, Mike, i've been missing this thread. I'd consider contacting computer museums, private collectors, just for a display would be cool most anywhere, might be able to name your price, if you'll locate and contact the right person/s
who built that drive? might try contacting them for info on who might be interested in it :)
i'd even suggest current hdd manufacturers for use in a display or advertising
Very cool. I don't think they would fit in any of my buckets!
http://marketplace.vintage-computer....tion_id=111948
CHECK IT OUT IF INTERESTED