A record?

From: Computer Room Internet Cafe <netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au>
Date: Sat Oct 31 23:13:48 1998

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, 1 November 1998 15:20
Subject: A record?


>
>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'm sure someone will challenge this record and put it to shame, but I was
>impressed with the feat.

So am I.
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.

I think the PDP effort beats that one.

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.)

Cheers

Geoff
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au
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