This seems very melancholy to me. Delightful that you're there to preserve
the machines for posterity, but sad that prodcutive machines are being shut
down after long service.
"Farewell, o' good and faithful servant".
Cheers,
Mark.
At 01:37 PM 4/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
It looks like everything is coming together... We have a team
assembled (compiled?) to decommission and move a set of KS10
decsystem-10 36-bit machines and the move happens this weekend!
I was in attendance earlier today as the machines were shut
down for the final time where they have been for quite a few
years. I got a picture of the final systat screen, and they
stopped timesharing...
We then got busy unloading and shutting down all the disk drives.
I then shut down the individual boxes and power controllers for
the system cabinets and isolated the cabling (they had LOTS of
terminal cables). I then raised all the stabilizing feet and
used a tie-wrap to attach the panel keys inside the cabinet. I
then closed and latched the front doors. I also did the same
for the tape drive cabinets. They're all rolling free and ready
to go.
On friday, we'll be pre-staging all the disk drives, and on
saturday we load-out to trucks.
I'll be taking more pictures as we go along...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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