1 Nov
1998
1 Nov
'98
9:45 a.m.
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
No, no, no! That would have been close to impossible (not to mention
dangerous and stupid). There is some heavy crap in those power supplies.
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.
Well done! I assume the racks were full at the time. I've moved all my collection with at most one
person helping for each
item to be moved (if you see what I mean -- no item has ever had more
than 2 people carrying it). But then I'm not afraid to take things apart,
so I tend to split machines up into carryable units. My 11/45, for
example, was moved as : A pile of boards, the empty CPU box, the
frontpanel bits, the backplane, the PSUs (in a lot of bits each), the
totally empty rack, assorted mounting rails, etc.
We moved everything up in chunks: the 11/45 main unit in one piece, the
two power supplies that fed it (we couldn't figure out how to separate
them so we just left them together), the TU10, then the racks.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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