Moving REALLY BIG IRON...

From: Edward Groenenberg <wanderer_at_bos.nl>
Date: Tue Apr 13 05:58:27 1999

Hello Megan,

Please do, as the other move report is very nice indeed.
Please make plenty of pictures, they are alway's usefull.

Ed

Megan wrote:
>
> Recently I posted about some KS10s which were becoming available.
>
> I mentioned that I needed to mount a team to try to save them.
>
> Well, that part has been a success, and the move is currently set for two
> saturdays from now, pending acceptence from the current owners of the
> -10s.
>
> Per the current plans:
>
> This week I hope to be in attendence when the machines are turned off for
> the last time in their current home. After that I will being the process
> of staging the hardware for the move. This involves locking the heads on
> the disks, raising the leveling feet, removing cables and separating the
> cabinets.
>
> I'm not going to attempt to do it all... Carl Friend (of RCS/RI) and I
> will finish the pre-staging on friday the 23rd. On saturday the 24th,
> the team will assemble and simply roll all the stuff down to the loading
> dock and onto the truck were it will be secured for the move.
>
> I will be getting one of the machines. RCS/RI will be getting one,
> and the third is going to another group in Rhode Island. A couple of
> RP06s will go with each one.
>
> I will, of course, take pictures to document this major move. I also
> hope to do a write-up in a format similar to the one I did for the move of
> my more recent acquisitions (http://world.std.com/~mbg/move_report.html)
>
> I just wanted to assure everyone that they indeed were going to find
> homes and weren't going to end up at the crusher or in a landfill.
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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