31 Oct
1998
31 Oct
'98
3:13 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, 1 November 1998 15:20
Subject: A record?
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'm sure someone will challenge this record and put
it to shame, but I was
impressed with the feat.
So am I.
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.
I think the PDP effort beats that one.
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.)
Cheers
Geoff
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au