VAX-11/730 (was RE: Unresistable pond comment)

From: Adrian Graham <agraham_at_ccat.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jul 18 03:56:35 2000

No, but it took an entire weekend and you had quad muscles *this big* by the
time you'd finished :o)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: 17 July 2000 20:50
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: VAX-11/730 (was RE: Unresistable pond comment)
>
>
> > I just wish I had space in the museum for machines of that
> size, but apart
> > from anything else getting them up 2 flights of stairs
> would be a bit
>
> Wimp ;-)
>
> I took my 11/730 upstairs by hand.... It's the 'compact
> system' -- a 4'
> rack containing the CPU, an R80 drive and a TS05 tape unit.
> Of course I
> dismantled it to move it -- took all the units out of the rack, took
> everything out of the CPU board (boards, PSU, cartridge tape
> drives) and
> took the R80 apart (pulled the HDA and the PSU). The result
> was not that
> hard to move.
>
> -tony
>
Received on Tue Jul 18 2000 - 03:56:35 BST