There was a hot rod type magazine that featured a Pinto built by Todd Kaneko in the 80's that did exactly that - blueprinted 4 cylinder, turbo, nitrous, etc. He spanked lots of sports car owners with it.

I'm evangelizing the "rotate pi/2" monitor scheme but so far it isn't catching on, even though people who look at it say "Cool" when I demo how I can see 3x as much code as on a normal 5250 terminal emu.

"Power7 servers will run AIX and Linux" ... and presumably i5/OS?

System/38 aka AS/400 aka iSeries aka system i aka ibm i had only a relational db when it came out

Ahh.. copy protection. Cracking TRS-80 Microchess on cassette as a teen, where the game instructions loaded directly into screen RAM via a custom cassette loader. Nirvana.. Later on, one Mits Hadeshi (SP?) posted a letter to Kilobaud magazine that his backup method of choice for computer cassettes was ... a Sony.