4 May
2007
4 May
'07
7:24 p.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote, in part:
Well, I managed to accquire more hardware... This
time
in the form of a couple CDC hard drives - one 9775
(Fixed media, 650mb) and one 9766 (300mb removeable).
I also wound up with an 11/84 and a couple RL02's and
one and a half RA80's. (my first Unibus 11, and my
first removable pack drives - yay!)
Wow! Congratulations! It sounds like fun, although the move did sound like
a challenge. :)
I'm sure others have stories about loading
hardware in
and out of vehicles...
Once, when I was younger and stupider. A PDP-8/I, in the 6' rack, packed
into... (drum roll) ... a Ford Pinto hatchback. :)
With the software, the boxes of 3-ring binders, and the books. Oh, and
did I mention the ASR-33 Teletype? :) In _one_ trip, of course, because
I didn't want to take any chances on any of it getting away while we were
off moving part of it.
And, of course, there were _two_ of us in the car for the trip.
...Don't ask me how we did it. I don't think I could answer. I _do_
remember having the passenger seat against my back and the dashboard
against my chest, and I specifically remember telling Dave if he made any
sudden stops he was going to have to pull the rack out of my torso
afterwards.
Simply put, that was something I think I'd only be stupid enough to try in
my youth. O'course that assumption may be challenged if I ever find myself
faced with a pedestal-mount PDP-11 and, say, a moped. :) :)
-O.-