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Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

SHARE Association · talk · Watch on YouTube

History of computingComputer architecture & CPUs

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as an entertaining example of a teenager buying, hosting and booting a real mainframe.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “it's an entertaining 45 minutes”

    Entertaining 45-minute story of buying a mainframe

    laxd, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997”

  2. “his talk about it is really interesting”

    Talk about getting a mainframe running at home

    galoisgirl, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “GnuCOBOL 3.1.1”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ibm mainframe, z890, vintage computers, hobby hardware, z/os

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