On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I'd like to put forward a documented record of hauling a PDP 11/45 and
> > TU-10 tape drive and separate racks up two flights of stairs into a third
> > floor apartment between three people.
>
> Well done! I assume the racks were full at the time.
No, no, no! That would have been close to impossible (not to mention
dangerous and stupid). There is some heavy crap in those power supplies.
> I've moved all my collection with at most one person helping for each
> item to be moved (if you see what I mean -- no item has ever had more
> than 2 people carrying it). But then I'm not afraid to take things apart,
> so I tend to split machines up into carryable units. My 11/45, for
> example, was moved as : A pile of boards, the empty CPU box, the
> frontpanel bits, the backplane, the PSUs (in a lot of bits each), the
> totally empty rack, assorted mounting rails, etc.
We moved everything up in chunks: the 11/45 main unit in one piece, the
two power supplies that fed it (we couldn't figure out how to separate
them so we just left them together), the TU10, then the racks.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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