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The new IBM coldframest

Kurt said,
>Speaking of cold frames, I just found and unlikely one. I upgraded an
office computer system today, and hauled >off all their IBM display writers
and printers. These massive printers had a wooden framed hood, with a
>plexiglass lid to muffle their sound. The hood is about 3 x3 ft, and 2.5 ft
high in the back, and 1.5 ft or so in the >front. The plexiglass lid is
hinged in the middle, as well as at the back, so it folds back on itself on
opening . Best >of all, two ventilation fans are built in, so all I have to
do is hook them up to a thermostat for warm season >cooling. Best of all, I
kept it out of the trash dumster, and out of the landfill. 

This is FANTASTIC information.  I can remember back to the early 1980's,
when all the various word-processor printers had plastic covers.  Why didn't
we all think of it then???

Thanks, Kurt.

--Janet

P.S.  It is possible to buy, for around $50, the little motorized arm device
that lifts the lid on a coldframe.  I got one this past season because the
$150 coldframe that came with it from Park's never operated right....
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