RA81 installation tech tip (real)

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Sat Apr 18 06:05:01 1998

> > With two people lift RA81 on to a hydraulic office chair set at it's
> > maximum height. Lower chair to correct hight. Pull rails onto RA81
> > and latch.
>
> ROFL!!!.... And then I realised that you're right and it would be
> next-to-ideal. Of course finding space for a chair anywhere near my PDP11
> is left as an exercise for the reader :-)
>
> > Bill
>
> -tony
>

When you're working 4 to midnight doing installs alone you get inventive.
The sooner it's in the rack, the sooner you go home.

I did this for 5 years and it worked great if one of those secretary type
armless chairs was around.

One thing about Field Service at DEC -- resourceful folks survive.
It's kind of like salvaging these classic computers.

Well, it's time to be off to the Trenton Computer Festival to dumpster dive.


Bill

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