Otherwise if you live in the Midwest...uw oshkosh use to have one for free. The stipulation was that you had to remove it from the campus. And it weighed 3 tons
Sure, it's not half as cool as having the machine like that guy, but you don't need to reinforce the floor in your house, so there's that.
There were some actual 'personal mainframes' made by IBM. The PC/370 was a PC or PC/AT with a set of ISA bus mainframe processor addin cards. The PC became the I/O processor. The PC/390 was a later version based on a PS/2 running OS/2. All long obsolete now.
> He and his old computer friends played around with some applications that were on the platform, and even made an FTP server that put some data on the internet.
Per https://www.fastcompany.com/3063265/this-teenage-ibm-employe...