Well I certainly can't compete with 75 tons, but I picked up an old Tandem
system that consisted of two EXT 25 Cabinets (each approx 4'w x 5'h x 3'd
weight unknown, but probably about 1000 pounds each).
It also had a Kennedy 9300 tape drive in a similarly sized cabinet and 2
8 bay disk drive cabinets (not quite as big but just as heavy).
My plan was to put them in my Cellar. However the only access was a narrow
wooden stairway. The solution? Rip through the cement floor of my attached
garage removing a store room wall that was in the way and then dig a ramp
into the floor that drops 4 feet to the cellar floor level. Finally have
the cement
experts come in and cut 4 foot doorway in my 10" think foundation
wall and then have the whole lot re-cemented and the doorway framed up.
I didn't actually lift any of the items, they are all on rollers. So I
guess I cheated.
This doesn't count the new electrical wiring and building a raised floor.
Jon
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>Oh, come now... B^} The king of gear moving is (and probably will remain
>for some time) Paul Pierce (keeper of the mainframe collection).
>
>Estimated to be around 75 TONS in overall weight (as noted in a Wall Street
>Journal (!) article on Friday), Paul has moved the entire collection at
>least three times that I can think of, before it arrived in its current
>(permanent) home.
>
>Some might want to have a look at the WSJ article. It also features quotes
>from a number of names that most will be familiar with. Its (the article)
>easy enough to find... it begins on the front page!
>
>-jim
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>At 10:19 AM 11/1/98 +0000, Pete wrote:
>>
>>On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:
>>
>>> I thought I did well moving a Vax 8530/6310 cluster, complete with
>>> 2 HSC50's, TA78/TU78 and about 15 RA8x and some RA7x drives from
>>> a warehouse to my parents house, then getting it up a narrow gap into a
>>> vacant granny flat. Over gravel.
>>> But we did have a forklift load it on the vehicle for us.
>>>
>>> I think the PDP effort beats that one.
>>>
>>
>>What about my uVAX II? I collected it from the 2nd floor (3rd floor in
>>US terms I think), 2 of us carried 2 RA81s and the 19" rack unit down a
>>steep, narrow, winding staircase and the out through the owner's garden
>>before loading it all into a medium six UK hatchback (Vauxhall Cavalier).
>>My other 3 RA* drives came from an old established University down even
>>narrower staircases. At this end I cheated, as I was moving them on my
>>own by then I brought them into the house by wheelbarrow :)
>>
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