30 Mar
2016
30 Mar
'16
8:50 a.m.
On Mar 30, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Jon Elson <elson at
pico-systems.com> wrote:
On 03/29/2016 10:01 PM, Jim Brain wrote:
Somebody mentioned a house with a collapsed floor. A friend of mine bought two 770/145s
and a GE/Intersil memory box. (I bought the other memory box, in 1979 or so, a **MEG** of
memory was a big deal!)
I am amazed we did not collapse the floor in his house!
Compared to waterbeds or pianos, computers aren't all that heavy. Not even
mainframes.
DEC's old headquarters (the "Mill" in Maynard) had prominent signs
everywhere saying the floor load limit was 100 pounds per square foot, or something like
that (perhaps less). But they just planted their computers all over anyway, and I
don't remember ever seeing floor reinforcements for that. The stated limit was
probably quite conservative. After all, that building used to contain spinning and
weaving machinery -- big hunks of cast iron.
paul