16 Dec
2003
16 Dec
'03
6:58 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:19:45PM -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I still have the raised floor from Software Results Corp (and many of
the DEC machines that sat on those same tiles for ten plus years).
I had to move it before I came back to the Ice - I'd been storing it in
a friend's basement, but his girlfriend wanted the space for some other
project.
I doubt I'll set it up in the quonset hut, but I have this plan to
build a 40'x60' building right next to it...
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 17-Dec-2003 08:50 Z
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Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html
> I have a ton (literally tons) that I've
been trying to find a new home
> for. Shipping is, of course, an issue (they weigh 22lbs each).
<Unnecessarily long story...>
...but it's still nice to set out a lawn chair once in a while and think
about the old machines that used to perform some imaginatively wild
calculations while resting atop those same tiles :)