21 Jul
2004
21 Jul
'04
8:27 a.m.
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. I got perhaps 2 miles from
Bills house before the trailer started fishtailing wildly. Cool! More fun!
So I pulled over again but this time couldn't see anything at all amiss. So,
I called Bill, and trouper that he was... he drove up to help. After
scratching his head a bit, he stood on the tongue of the trailer and found
the problem. A seriously negative amount of tongue weight. We were pretty
sure we had distributed the weight well (especially with the 11/34 up
front), but, apparently not as the power supply for the reality is built
into the bottom of the rack, and it is VERY heavy.
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Jay,
Shirley and I drove uneventfully from LA to KC and back during this
time, and it sounds like any and all mishaps we could have had, were
transfered to you. So very sorry to hear of that.
The reality probably weighs in at 700# with a Reflex (100), 6000
tape drive (80#) and power supply (150#) and all the rest of the iron.
there is no aluminum in the "2000" that you have. Steel at Full
Metal Fab in Orange was way cheaper than doing it with aluminum
or plastic.
Do you or anyone have an original Microdata Prism? It is a terminal
that actually weighs more than the above tape drive by 2#. all Steel, and
a solid metal machined casting for the base. Same for detached
keyboard (included in above weight).
Anyway, hope to see more info on what you got with it. It may have
16K core, or 64 or 128K of 'mos" (all the chips are same as apple
2 dram).
Jim