25 May
1999
25 May
'99
4:31 p.m.
Guys:
I have to ship a rather distressed pdp-8a
cardcage across the country. Do you think
I should ship the cards separately, or
the entire thing as a unit?
The whole thing weighs 60#, btw.
Thanks
Jeff
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25 May
25 May
4:26 p.m.
On Tue, 25 May 1999 jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com wrote:
Guys:
I have to ship a rather distressed pdp-8a
cardcage across the country. Do you think
I should ship the cards separately, or
the entire thing as a unit?
When sending anything by whatever shipping company, I *always*
remove and pack separately the cards from the backplane. This is
not to say they can't all go in the same box, but I have caused
severe damage to equipment and needless trauma to myself and others
by trying to 'cheap out' and put packing stuff in and around the
cards while still seated. Also, the bigger and less well supported
the cards are, the more of a mess you stand a chance of making.
Most of the damage in my experience was card-edge and backplane
connector damage, from shocks at right angles to the plane of the
card, causing them to rip out of their guides and break off thier
connectors.
Just my 200 millidollars
Cheerz
John
4:52 p.m.
New subject: MicroVAX/station 2000 stuff
In doing some experimenting with the RX33 attached to my MicroVAX 2000 -
now with hard disk, I built the Standalone Backup disk package as
recommended by Allison and Tim. A useful exercise, as I have learned a
bit about DCL in the process of 'fumbling around'.
The resulting three disks will boot up the system and bring up Backup 5.5,
or thereabouts. But when I undertake to do a backup/image/verify to
floppy, I get the error message:
"%BACKUP-F-CLUSTER, unsuitable cluster factor for DUA2:"
Since I formatted the disks using T 70 I would assume that they are to
MicroVAX/VMS standard. How do I get around this roadblock?
Incidentally, Tim, I do not intend to really use floppies for backup. I
have a TK50Z. But, if I can get a better understanding of how they may be
used, they may prove useful in getting software into the little bugger.
- don
26 May
26 May
5:57 a.m.
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