6 Nov
2011
6 Nov
'11
1:03 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Matthew Hudson wrote:
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb
at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Truely big iron. I had the chance to get my hands on a 6000 but had no
space for it at the time. Sadly I think it went to the scrapper. :(
It was an awesome machine too. Three cabinets, four RA-81 drives and a
TU-81+ tape drive. I paid $500 for it, straight out of the machine room
at Mannesmann-Tally in Kent, WA in the early 90's.
I had two 30A 110v services installed just to be able to turn it on.
We set it up in the 2nd floor of the house I was living at the time. The
whole house hummed while it was on. When we moved in 2006, the floor
still had a slight bow to it. :)
g.
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