31 Oct
1998
31 Oct
'98
3:50 p.m.
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:
We had to off-load the populated racks from a pickup truck. This was in
addition to the three racks we off-loaded on the first stop (one with 2
RK05f's, one with a paper tape reader/punch and the other with a 4" reel
to reel tape drive).
I'd like to
put forward a documented record of hauling a PDP 11/45 and
TU-10 tape drive and separate racks up two flights of stairs into a third
floor apartment between three people.
I'd have to concede that as being an act of considerable fortitude.
I thought I did well moving a Vax 8530/6310 cluster, complete with
2 HSC50's, TA78/TU78 and about 15 RA8x and some RA7x drives from
a warehouse to my parents house, then getting it up a narrow gap into a
vacant granny flat. Over gravel.
But we did have a forklift load it on the vehicle for us. The TA78/TU78 was the hardest, and the heaviest.. It
took six of us to
move it all. (Called in a few favours, and a mate with a ute, uh,
pickup in us-speak) This doesn't include the several large station
wagon loads of 1/2" r-r tape and the docs for VAX-VMS 5.5. For those
not acquainted with VMS, the manuals are loose leaf A4 Binders, and
there are close to 40 of them. It's normally shipped on a pallet, and
referred to by users as the "great grey wall" after the colour of the
ring binders. (Some earlier versions were other colours, orange I
think, but they weren't quite as big either.)
This is pretty impressive in its own right!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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