17 Jul
2000
17 Jul
'00
8:56 p.m.
No, but it took an entire weekend and you had quad muscles *this big* by the
time you'd finished :o)
-----Original Message-----
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: 17 July 2000 20:50
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: VAX-11/730 (was RE: Unresistable pond comment)
I just wish I had space in the museum for
machines of that
size, but apart
from anything else getting them up 2 flights of
stairs
would be a bit
Wimp ;-)
I took my 11/730 upstairs by hand.... It's the 'compact
system' -- a 4'
rack containing the CPU, an R80 drive and a TS05 tape unit.
Of course I
dismantled it to move it -- took all the units out of the rack, took
everything out of the CPU board (boards, PSU, cartridge tape
drives) and
took the R80 apart (pulled the HDA and the PSU). The result
was not that
hard to move.
-tony