Moving REALLY BIG IRON...

Recently I posted about some KS10s which were becoming available. I mentioned that I needed to mount a team to try to save them. Well, that part has been a success, and the move is currently set for two saturdays from now, pending acceptence from the current owners of the -10s. Per the current plans: This week I hope to be in attendence when the machines are turned off for the last time in their current home. After that I will being the process of staging the hardware for the move. This involves locking the heads on the disks, raising the leveling feet, removing cables and separating the cabinets. I'm not going to attempt to do it all... Carl Friend (of RCS/RI) and I will finish the pre-staging on friday the 23rd. On saturday the 24th, the team will assemble and simply roll all the stuff down to the loading dock and onto the truck were it will be secured for the move. I will be getting one of the machines. RCS/RI will be getting one, and the third is going to another group in Rhode Island. A couple of RP06s will go with each one. I will, of course, take pictures to document this major move. I also hope to do a write-up in a format similar to the one I did for the move of my more recent acquisitions (http://world.std.com/~mbg/move_report.html) I just wanted to assure everyone that they indeed were going to find homes and weren't going to end up at the crusher or in a landfill. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+