Comment by jeffwask
3 days ago
It's a pretty monumental effort to transport, store, refurbish and show these massive computers. There aren't a lot of organizations even willing to put in the effort which is why most of this stuff gets landfilled or sent to the recycler. I would assume they asked around and no one else was interested.
Yeah an old colleague told me that a decommissioned mainframe where he'd worked had reportedly been sold for scrap metal.
There is HNF in about 250 km from Aachen. Transportation there would probably be cheaper.