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

Connor Krukosky is an 18-year-old college student with a hobby of collecting vintage computers. One day, he decided to buy his own mainframe...an IBM z890. This is his story. Connor's presentation "I just Bought an IBM z890 - Now What?" was featured at SHARE in San Antonio in March 2016. For more great content like this, register for the next SHARE by visiting www.SHARE.org/events! © 2016 SHARE Inc. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

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