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              “ … and I'll be taking these mainframes with me … ”
                                        
> Australian authorities have ordered an urgent review of security at
> Sydney's international airport after the theft of two mainframe computers
> from a restricted customs area.
> 
> It is believed they were taken by two men posing as technicians at the end
> of August. 
> 

“Airport theft shocks Australia [1]”

How do you “steal” not one, but two mainframes?

A mainframe.

We're not talking a PC (Personal Computer) here, nor even something like a
typical server, but a mainframe. These are not small machines—these are
honking large machines the size of industrial refridgerators.

Or larger.

When you mention mainframe, I'm thinking something a bit larger than the Sun
Fire 15K (6′2.75″ × 2′9¼″ × 6′5″ in size!) [2] (which may or may not be a
mainframe).

And two guys just waltzed out with two of them.

Unless the reporter mistook “server” for “mainframe,” which I find more
believable … 

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3083228.stm
[2] http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire15k/specs.xml

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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