I've long been curious about mainframes. It's interesting you say they're well-designed and not made of Swiss cheese and duct tape. Archaic yet well documented

I've long been curious about mainframes. It's interesting you say they're well-designed and not made of Swiss cheese and duct tape. Archaic yet well documented sounds actually quite nice. The z14 does indeed look awesome. One of my crazy hopes is to stumble on a z series chassis one day so I can retrofit a fridge inside of it. Yeah. (Because I know I'm not exactly going to be able to get a real one... and I'll poke my fridge a lot more than I poke any racks of equipment in any basements. :D) Also: > [I]t's the closest thing to alien tech that I've come across. Mostly for entertainment value (for an interesting/oddball interpretation of "entertainment" that I think you might resonate with) take a look at ColorForth. Forth itself is a very odd little system, ColorForth an especially arcane implementation of it. But it's cute in an odd kind of way. Almost completely practical, except maybe for the educational journey Forth imparts.