21 Sep
2000
21 Sep
'00
9:09 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Honniball" <John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-11/34a (was: NYT on...)
My friend tells a story about a PDP-11/34a (how
appropriate) that he was rescuing from King's College,
London. A few friends helped him get the 11 and some disk
packs into the lift (elevator). This was the same lift
that the medical school used to transport bodies on wheeled
trolleys, so it was about that size.
A good sized rack of gear......
So, everybody piles into a Mini, along with PDP-11,
etc.
Now a Mini is a small car, even for England
Yup, had one for a while, my first car was its remote ancestor the
Morris Minor.
(1948 sidevalve lowlight 2 door, big high radiator and no water pump,
cooling system ran (not terribly well in Aussie summers) on 'thermal
syphonage' - wish I still had it!!)
(anybody remember The Itailian Job?)
Mini Cooper S's if I recall correctly.
and not designed for a heavy
load. So, they're driving across London in the small hours
of the morning in an overloaded Mini -- but all ends well,
and the PDP is still alive and running in Bristol.
I'm wondering how much of the '11 was protruding from the Mini.
House brick on wheels....
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob at stmarks dot pp dot catholic dot edu dot au
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