[rescue] FS: Another BeBox

[Eric Dittman]

> > > > What was the last IBM mainframe with a full front panel? Or do
> > > > they actually still have switches / hex knobs? Or keypads, like
> > > > the S/36?
> > >
> > > Nowadays there's a rackmount PC with specialized hardware running inside
> > > the main frame. The blinkenlights to which I was referring were in the
> > > DASD subsystem.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the last couple zx7 systems we got in had
> > an IBM laptop inside, and a couple of the 9672 systems I
> > looked in had a PS/2 inside.
> 
> My G1's have a PS/2 Model 77s inside.  The G5 has a rackmount PC Server
> 325.  They switched to laptops?  Cool.

Well, the laptop could be for something else.  It's not like
IBM couldn't throw in a top-of-the-line Thinkpad for something
else with a z-Series.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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