Adam Bradley - Slashdot User

Submission + - IBM Rescue Geeks get 1960's mainframe back to top secret Mi6 Base in UK! (ibms360.co.uk)

Submitted by Adam Bradley on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:22PM

Adam Bradley writes: You might remember some time ago we posted about our efforts to rescue an IBM 360 Mainframe from an abandoned building in Germany. We have now successfully got it back to the UK and to it's new home at an ex. Top Secret Mi6 base! You can read more about it on our latest blog post here: https://ibms360.co.uk/?p=485. The traffic from Slashdot on our original posts was incredible, we definitely got slashdotted! I was up until the early hours migrating servers :). We really hope the readers of slashdot enjoy our new post!

Comment Re:System 360 Model 20 not really a mainframe (Score 1) 129

by Adam Bradley on Monday May 20, 2019 @03:29PM (#58624834) Attached to: Three Geeks Rescue a 50-Year-Old IBM 360 Mainframe From an Abandoned Building

Hi, if you look at the website it does have a listing of the machine and the peripherals, and yes we have a 2560 MCFM :)

Comment Re:Big Iron Rocks! (Score 3, Informative) 129

by Adam Bradley on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:55AM (#58621814) Attached to: Three Geeks Rescue a 50-Year-Old IBM 360 Mainframe From an Abandoned Building

Lawrence Wilkinson, who you'll see is featured in the third article as he came up from Switzerland to help us :)

Submission + - 1960's IBM 360 Mainframe Rescued from Abandoned Building in Germany (ibms360.co.uk)

Submitted by Adam Bradley on Sunday May 19, 2019 @03:27PM

Adam Bradley writes: Hi! My friend and I recently rescued an IBM 360 Model 20 Mainframe from an abandoned building in the backstreets of Nuremberg, Germany. The machine will shortly be headed to the UK for a full restoration to working order. We're planning to blog the entire process and hope some of you might be interested in reading more about it at our blog: https://ibms360.co.uk/

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