Ive wrote:

> just a boring image showing some boring machines, 'cause I was bored
> at work. Well, yesterday I had absolutely no serious business to do at
> work, so I did smoke a lot and made this CSG model of the good old
> AS/400 over there.

  Ah! I remember old&good times when I used have such calm days...

> position is used to make them look a little more impressive as in real
> life, usually I do not sit on the floor and watch the machines.

  Good point, the perspective is very nice.

> I have uses Jaime's lighting macros and they did work fine to create that
> cold fluor lamp lighting.

  Oh! Someone using it! :)
 
> And BTW one thing I was always wondering about: there is absolutely
> no practical reason for the arrangement of the small rectangular air holes
> you can see on the front panel. So I guess it is just some kind of a
> "futuristic design" issue. Or maybe IBM has a encoded message written
> on the case and it should be regarded as a new urban legend?

  Of course it's simply design, what's a mainframe without a futuristic 
touch? But the funny thing is that with those orange holes at bottom and 
the cigarretts box on top, it seems to me like a hi-tech tobacco machine. :)


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Jaime Vives Piqueres

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