Heavy, Heavy Metal.

So I finally got my hands on a pdp8/a at the University auction. It's the omnibus model that's built into a desk and called the Classic, short for CLASSroom Interactive Computer. I had no idea it was so heavy as it was loaded for me into the back of my pickup. I discovered it must be real heavy as the my F-150 groaned when loaded and when I came home and unloaded I almost herniated myself. There it sits, almost complete (without the VT52) but has an extra RL01/RL02 board. Is it the desk that gives it the weight. I know the dual RX01 are heavy, but the are the cage, power supply and boards real heavy in these things or is the DESK to blame. Until I put it on something that I can move around, it will sit in my driveway. I can run a terminal cable and an extension cord out to it to maybe boot it up after I do some more research on it to see if all the boards are there. One thing is not clear.n looking at the board numbers, it seems it doesn't have a memory board, but it might have memory aboard the CPU card. Is this right? It uses the newer cmos memory. It has the three board set that also was used in the KIT-1, but it also has a variety of other boards that I'll write down as soon as I can. Cheers Tom