13 Mar
2011
13 Mar
'11
11:10 a.m.
On 3/13/11 2:22 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I was involved once in moving one of the short ones from the flight deck
of an Aircraft Carrier down to the compartment where it was installed.
That is something I *never* want to repeat.
Ugh.
Those are indeed nice shockmounted racks - I am
starting to see them
in the dead ships, but I never want to actually have to move one.
I've moved one, once. AFTER unloading it (it contained one of the
coveted rackmount VAX-6000s), it took four guys to lift onto the back
of a pickup truck, and we were straining. I can't even imagine moving one of the full size
ones.
We only had to lift it off of a pallet and lay it down into the bed
of a pickup truck and STILL it was a painful experience.
OTOH, I wish one
of the systems I support had been mounted in these racks last Thursday
night...
What happened?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL