I looked at the author's previous post where he details the process of buying the thing. A fair amount of it goes over my head, I must admit. But that final price tag.... You've gotta really love mainframes. I can't imagine the utility bills for it. The power usage was reduced to 1.7kW. I guess some people buy a sports car and some buy a mainframe. Personally, I'd never be able to drop that kind of money for a hobby. I think emulating a mainframe on a fancy PC would scratch my itch. But to each their own.
If you asked me how much I thought 700kg of computer should cost, I probably would have guessed more than $12k. Is this thing modern? Specs don't seem too impressive but I don't know anything about these things.
I was about to think that was old, but then I remembered that mainframes, as I understand it, can aim for decade+ uptime, so that might actually be reasonably fresh?
