19-year-old Connor Krukosky has been collecting computers for years. His latest relic helped land him a job.
19-year-old Connor Krukosky has been collecting computers for years. His latest relic helped land him a job.
The IBM z890 Mainframe computer weighs 1,500 pounds and stands over five feet tall. When it was first unveiled in 2004, it cost over $300,000. At that time, the z890 was a cutting-edge solution that helped midsized enterprises run their businesses. A 2004 ComputerWorld article described it as small, but by today’s standards it’s a big honking computer, and it’s for anything but personal use.
