As a college student and setting IBM's mainframe at home & & What is the niche way of living "mainframe kid" scouted to IBM?

"An 18-year-old college student made IBMmain frameofIBM z 890I bought it and set it in my room. "Became a famous piece in the movieHowever,Conner · KraskoskiMr. is. A movie that interviewed Mr. Connor who was scouted after graduating to IBM but still working on the mainframe related work at IBM now at college students, at YouTubeIBM Official ChannelIt is published in.

The "Mainframe Kid"


"It is actually fun, it is actually fun to talk to someone," Oh, are you the child of that mainframe? "And that's why I'm talking about laughing," Yes, that's right "," Mainframe · Kid "Connor.


This is Mr. Connor 's home where IBM z 890 is installed.


Conner's father says, "Conner has come to collect vintage computers for several years.Teletype terminalOr old, bigTape driveI will talk to you ". Wonderful old winding type wondering where the tape drive that Mr. Conner lifts is sold exactly.


"Everyone's listening to this hard disk or something like" Where is this a museum or something? "But this is my room ... probably"


Conner has always liked machines, and he seems to be interested in computers on an extension line before long.


"There was something I thought," I wish I could be a surgeon who opens a person, "but he decided to launch computers instead," he said.


This man is Mr. Connor 's father. "It certainly came out as a science fair when Conner was a junior high school first grader or a second grader."


"As other kids are investigating the classification of volcanoes and the growth of plants, Connor made a hydrogen gas generator ... ... it is truly a hydrogen burner '


"I did not say anything and I made it with my own garage, so I entered the garage without knowing that hydrogen is being generated, and it exploded inadvertently."


When Mr. Conner moved to this house with his family, he said he got his room. "It was not until then that we started collecting things."


"If you want anything about Connor, you try to get it at all costs," Conner's father says. "Even if it's a mainframe,"


This is the mainframe that Mr. Conner boasts, IBM z 890.


"After Connor brought that," I suggested somewhere to talk about this mainframe. "It was too big and it was hard work."


Conner 's main frame path that we initially assumed was between the deck of the house and the ground. However, because its width was narrower than expected, I was forced to dig the garden and widen the width, finally the IBM z890 mainframe entered Connor 's room.


Connor who puts on and switches and starts IBM z890. "This guy is insane late."


"But it works as long as it starts up."


According to Connor 's father, Mr. Conner stayed in the room for about 3 months after acquiring the mainframe and was struggling to make it somehow start.


"It was very hard on my old computer 12 or 3 years ago, but I enjoyed it very much."


Connor's story that "18-year-old boy set up a mainframe in his room" became famous, Connor said that he was supposed to make a presentation in many places. "Everyone who goes to Connor says" People are awesome. "Finally, I began to think that" this event might turn Conner's life into a better direction "


"Presentation videoThere came up to YouTube, and thousands of people saw it at first. Even though I thought that "a lot of wonderful people saw it," then the number of playbacks increased to tens of thousands, two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand and "What is going on?" It was a feeling. "


"After the presentation, there was contact with Connor from the IBM person," Do you want to see the facility of IBM? "


"When that story came, when I heard that" (the state of New York) Poughkeepsie? "IBM people asked," Do you know Poughkeepsie? "" Of course at the mainframe factory,IBM 360It is where the original was made! "I replied,"


"I am a bit familiar with the history of mainframes, but it seems that IBM people did not believe that I had so much knowledge," Connor said.


Connor who visited Poughkeepsie mainframe factory now works at that Poughkeepsie.


Connor says, "Originally I did not intend to collect that kind of thing, but it's common for IBM products to collect vintage computers, because it's a company that has produced a wide range of personal computers to industrial PCs." I wanted to work in this company someday. "


In the middle of the interview, Mr. Conner took out the old cable from the room and explained "Interestingly it was transferring data from mainframe to magnetic tape or DASD (direct access storage device) in old days" I will.


"Everyone," You are out of something what you are doing ... you will not get a job in such a niche field too. "It is true that the mainframe may be a niche, but now that a lot of work is done for me I'm getting in there. "


Connor is jokingly saying "People who are uneasy about jobs should do the mainframe."


"When Conner first brought the IBM z 890," I asked you not to enter such a house ", but that mainframe brought me a tremendous achievement."


"It was a wonderful opportunity for Connor." "No way it will be such a thing", Mr. Conner's parents smiled together.