7 Jan
2007
7 Jan
'07
10:58 a.m.
I'm sure someone on the list asked a while back, but I couldn't find
it. I have the complete rt-11 docs printed out. They are too heavy to
post but can be picked up from here (Soho UK).
Dan
8 Jan
8 Jan
9:01 a.m.
In article <26c11a640701071058y67f48df8n7d8f93cd2062a4be at mail.gmail.com>,
"Dan Williams" <williams.dan at gmail.com> writes:
I'm sure someone on the list asked a while back,
but I couldn't find
it. I have the complete rt-11 docs printed out. They are too heavy to
post but can be picked up from here (Soho UK).
"Too heavy to post"?
Hey, I just recently bought a complete set of VAX/VMS documentation --
12 boxes stuffed to the gills.
Nothing is too heavy to post!
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9 Jan
9 Jan
1:22 a.m.
On 1/9/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Nothing is too heavy to post!
Try a complete 8-node VAXcluster with VAX9000s with the accompanying
storage, starcouplers, printers, VTs, networking gear.... etc.
You get the idea. :-)
I'm sure the old-iron fanatics would be able to give much better examples... :-)
6:47 a.m.
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 04:22, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
On 1/9/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
wrote:
Perhaps too heavy for the "postal service", but then there's always
Freight companies.
It's even possible to ship buildings if you cut them into sections small
enough to fit on a flatbed truck.
Pat
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Nothing is too heavy to post!
Try a complete 8-node VAXcluster with VAX9000s with the accompanying
storage, starcouplers, printers, VTs, networking gear.... etc.
You get the idea. :-)
I'm sure the old-iron fanatics would be able to give much better
examples... :-) 
6:53 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 04:22, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
Sometimes you can even ship a building without satisfying that
requirement. Sometimes you can get clearance to take up an entire
highway in the middle of the night and use a Mammoet to transport your
building onto a rail car. Especially if your local rail line has a
particularly large loading gauge.
Peace... Sridhar
On 1/9/07, Richard <legalize at
xmission.com> wrote:
Perhaps too heavy for the "postal service", but then there's always
Freight companies.
It's even possible to ship buildings if you cut them into sections small
enough to fit on a flatbed truck. Nothing is too heavy to post!
Try a
complete 8-node VAXcluster with VAX9000s with the accompanying
storage, starcouplers, printers, VTs, networking gear.... etc.
You get the idea. :-)
I'm sure the old-iron fanatics would be able to give much better
examples... :-) 
12:41 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Perhaps too heavy for the "postal service",
but then there's always
Freight companies.
Hmm... You don't ship by air. :)
It's even possible to ship buildings if you cut
them into sections small
enough to fit on a flatbed truck.
So what about the buildings made of molded cement!
Pat
I suspect most of the the time it is *too* *heavy* for the person
selling the product to move it out his/her door.
9:44 a.m.
Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
On 1/9/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
wrote:
For certain classes of things, the problem's not in the weight or size, but in
retaining (and having on-tap at either end) the knowledge to dismantle and put
back together again, I suppose.
I remember with our Marconi that it took several days for the trained site
engineers to label everything up, dismantle it, and properly pack it - then
another whole day at the other end to put everything back together properly
and recommission it. That's without the effort to physically move the thing
across country, which easily filled an entire truck what with the machine
itself, documentation, software (large cabinet of paper tape), spares, and the
control desk.
It's a similar story for any big installations, I suspect - DEC's just
something of an exception to a certain extent because there's so much of their
stuff about and so much knowledge within the collecting community. Even then
I'd think twice about entrusting the bigger hardware to a freight company
without some sort of supervision from people who know the hardware.
cheers
Jules
Nothing is too heavy to post!
Try a complete 8-node VAXcluster with VAX9000s with the accompanying
storage, starcouplers, printers, VTs, networking gear.... etc.
8:43 a.m.
Hey, I just recently bought a complete set of VAX/VMS documentation --
12 boxes stuffed to the gills.
Nothing is too heavy to post!
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"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
I was more a combination of too heavy for me to want to carry to the
post office and the fact that it would probably be cheaper to print
them out yourself.
Dan
8:59 a.m.
In article <26c11a640701090843q4566f6ffp27203bcaddbd19f1 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Dan Williams" <williams.dan at gmail.com> writes:
I was more a combination of too heavy for me to want
to carry to the
post office and the fact that it would probably be cheaper to print
them out yourself.
a) not all of the documentation is available online
b) if you print them out yourself, you don't get the binders.
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"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
9:31 a.m.
On 09/01/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <26c11a640701090843q4566f6ffp27203bcaddbd19f1 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Dan Williams" <williams.dan at gmail.com> writes:
As I said in my original post they are print-outs.
Dan
I was more a combination of too heavy for me to
want to carry to the
post office and the fact that it would probably be cheaper to print
them out yourself.
a) not all of the documentation is available online
b) if you print them out yourself, you don't get the binders.
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
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