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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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as an entertaining example of a teenager buying, hosting and booting a real mainframe.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SHARE Association
- Topic
- home mainframe
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'm shure alot of you have seen this already. If not, it's an entertaining 45 minutes [VIDEO] (Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe)
laxd on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997He did, his talk about it is really interesting: [VIDEO] > He and his old computer friends played around with some applications that were on the platform, and even made an FTP server that put some data on the internet. Per [LINK]
galoisgirl on Hacker News · 2020-12
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