Saving *BIG* Old Iron...

From: Mark Gregory <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Date: Wed Apr 21 21:37:22 1999

This seems very melancholy to me. Delightful that you're there to preserve
the machines for posterity, but sad that prodcutive machines are being shut
down after long service.

"Farewell, o' good and faithful servant".

Cheers,
Mark.

At 01:37 PM 4/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>It looks like everything is coming together... We have a team
>assembled (compiled?) to decommission and move a set of KS10
>decsystem-10 36-bit machines and the move happens this weekend!
>
>I was in attendance earlier today as the machines were shut
>down for the final time where they have been for quite a few
>years. I got a picture of the final systat screen, and they
>stopped timesharing...
>
>We then got busy unloading and shutting down all the disk drives.
>I then shut down the individual boxes and power controllers for
>the system cabinets and isolated the cabling (they had LOTS of
>terminal cables). I then raised all the stabilizing feet and
>used a tie-wrap to attach the panel keys inside the cabinet. I
>then closed and latched the front doors. I also did the same
>for the tape drive cabinets. They're all rolling free and ready
>to go.
>
>On friday, we'll be pre-staging all the disk drives, and on
>saturday we load-out to trucks.
>
>I'll be taking more pictures as we go along...
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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