The Day's Finds

From: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto_at_nut.net>
Date: Sun Oct 10 11:58:21 1999

That reminds me..
        I was moving to California and wanted to bring my 11/73 in BA23,
but the airline only allowed 75-lb packages. As some of you probably
know, the ba23 itself is about seventy and it had lots o' boards, tk50 and
a st251s in it so I was over the limit. They told me I was like eleven
pounds overweight on that 'piece of luggage' and so I yanked the front
cover off and began ripping winchesters, wires, etc out of the machine
right in front of the whole line. People were staring with astonished
faces when I finally got it down to 75 lbs, stashing the removed stuff in
my carry-on. They threw it on the conveyor with no disks and no covers
and nothing around the outside except a few FRAGILE stickers. It arrived
at SFO slightly bent and with huge gouges around the cooling slots. The
bottom pedestal attachments were the most difficult parts to bend back
into shape.
        But I put the disks in, checked the boards for tightness and it
fired right up when I got to my place.

;^}


 On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, emanuel stiebler wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 11:38 PM
> Subject: Re: The Day's Finds
>
>
> > > I managed to get a PDP-11/23+ in a nice BA23 chassis, though not sure
> that
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> > Not to put to fine a point on it, but is there really such a thing
> > as a "nice BA23"?
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> YES, there is something nice about a ba23. Or, tell me how many pdp11s, you
> can put in a samsonite case with drives, and take it with you ?
>
> ( I flew twice from europe with a ba23+cpu+drives+tape)
>
> cheers,
> emanuel
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