I was under the impression that big systems usually had casters. Don't the big Vax's have wheels? Vax 6000, 7000, and 8000 series? Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:

We had the term "casters" on the base unit under our three bay racks inthe AF that held approx 2800 lbs for the set of 6 between the HP 1000, 16" hard drive, HVDCpower supply, AC convertor ADC convertors, various IEEE488 test equipment (we all know how heavy HP stuff is/was before 1990) etc and as I said the parts manual from Boeing reffered to them as casters, even though they where phenolic wheels with brakses and ball bearing swivels. I think it's a generic term to refer to wheel sets that independantly swivel besides rolling (maybe in reference to an alignment term of "caster" opposite "camber"??) -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:28 PM To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' Subject: Caster?? (was: Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?) I was under the impression that casters were only for very lightweight stuff that was intended to be movable by one person without a forklift, or even a dolly. I wish that I could have a REAL computer.