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Personal blog · blog.mainframe.devhardwaresystems

mainframe.dev is a personal blog at blog.mainframe.dev about hardware and systems. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Buying an IBM Mainframe”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2019–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts about IBM mainframes, including the cost of buying one for personal use and technical details of running System/370 emulation on small hardware.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A collection of articles about me building, fixing, hacking and modding stuff.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Buying an IBM Mainframe
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-23
  2. Updating a Mainframe
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. ablekh · 2020-05-07
    In the meantime, somewhere in the universe, people are buying mainframes ... for personal use: https://blog.mainframe.dev/2019/05/buying-ibm-mainframe.html . Go figure! :-)

    Comment linking /2019/05/buying-ibm-mainframe.html

    on “Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero”
  2. nollbit · 2019-05-23

    Submitted Buying an IBM Mainframe as a story · 212 points

    HN discussion
  3. cybrexalpha · 2020-05-16Recommends
    https://blog.mainframe.dev/ I'm never going to install, or even program, a Mainframe. But the technical details are very interesting.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are some hard-tech blogs that you follow?”
  4. jandeboevrie · 2019-07-18

    Submitted Powering a Mainframe as a story · 131 points

    HN discussion
  5. posix_me_less · 2020-05-20
    This guy says $24,000. https://blog.mainframe.dev/2019/05/buying-ibm-mainframe.html

    Comment linking /2019/05/buying-ibm-mainframe.html

    on “The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform”
  6. voxadam · 2019-06-03

    Submitted Buying an IBM Mainframe as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. zdw · 2020-08-10

    Submitted Updating a Mainframe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. jandeboevrie · 2020-08-09

    Submitted Updating a Mainframe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. zdw · 2019-11-10

    Submitted The Fake Ficon Board – Fejkon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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