16 Oct
1999
16 Oct
'99
7:53 a.m.
Now had I known that! I was acting upon the assumption
that like most other
drives the 60 Hz RL02s would not work without significant changeover on the
German 50 Hz power. Thank you very much for that info, next time I will
know better and secure the drives.
Gonna try to take a RL02 as carry-on luggage? :-).
The above comment was only half-joking - I once took a full 10.5" high
PDP-11/44 on an international flight. The power supply (the heavy part!)
was removed and carried on, so that the main chassis (now just the
steel frame and backplanes) weighed about 45 pounds and could fly without
any checked-luggage-over-weight-allowance charges.
I was lucky that day - they didn't weigh carry-ons (they often do in
Europe now, and I think the limit is 5 or 7.5 kgs!)
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