8 Jul
2015
8 Jul
'15
9:01 a.m.
On Jul 8, 2015, at 08:34, Toby Thain <toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Plus I'm guessing (admittedly) that the Really Big VAX racks don't have castors
either?
The VAX-11/780 has casters. Back in college, a friend and I pushed a decommissioned 11/780
out of the computer room and into our boss's tiny office while he was out on vacation.
We powered up a few blowers and added a hard-copy terminal with some text on the paper to
make it look like we were trying to boot the machine. I wish I was on shift to see his
face when he arrived the next morning. I was told that his wide-eyed reaction was
"... and it's RUNNING?!"
Another boss later got the same treatment with a TU77 drive. Good times, good times.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/