On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Computer Room Internet Cafe 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.
>
> I'd have to concede that as being an act of considerable fortitude.
>
> 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.
We had to off-load the populated racks from a pickup truck. This was in
addition to the three racks we off-loaded on the first stop (one with 2
RK05f's, one with a paper tape reader/punch and the other with a 4" reel
to reel tape drive).
> The TA78/TU78 was the hardest, and the heaviest.. It took six of us to
> move it all. (Called in a few favours, and a mate with a ute, uh,
> pickup in us-speak) This doesn't include the several large station
> wagon loads of 1/2" r-r tape and the docs for VAX-VMS 5.5. For those
> not acquainted with VMS, the manuals are loose leaf A4 Binders, and
> there are close to 40 of them. It's normally shipped on a pallet, and
> referred to by users as the "great grey wall" after the colour of the
> ring binders. (Some earlier versions were other colours, orange I
> think, but they weren't quite as big either.)
This is pretty impressive in its own right!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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