On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Richard W. Schauer wrote:
> Speaking of 11/780's, how would the peanut gallery recommend moving one
> that's located down a flight of stairs? When it was brought in 15 years
> ago they hired a moving company, who got it down in an hour using some
> equipment for $200. I called several moving companies who insist the only
> way to bring it up is with 6-8 men who basically carry it up, at a cost of
> $800-1000. I am considering diving deeply into Vaxology by taking it
> apart, carrying it upstairs, and putting it back together.
That sounds slightly familiar; it's how I got started in PDP-11ology
several years ago. A local university had a PDP-11/44 in one
cabinet, two RL02s in another cabinet and 11/03s and 8" floppy drives
in other cabinets. I called movers, but some didn't want to move the
equipment, and others wanted to charge prices that I didn't want to
pay, so, equipped with very helpful advice from Tony Duell, and lots
of tools and a cart to haul stuff to the car with, I took the cabinets
apart (and the equipment itself apart for testing and fan
disassembly-lubrication-reassembly when I got it home).
Of course, you're going to have way more fun than I had, as you have
much more to take apart, move around and reassemble. :-)
Something that I always to when disassembling and reassembling a
system: take along some masking tape, or strips of paper and Scotch
Tape, and a pen, and mark all of the ends of the cables, make lots of
notes & sketches in a spiral notebook, etc. It will make reassembly a
breeze. Also, take along some double-bagged paper grocery-store bags
to put spare, smaller, bits, including the following in: some zip-lock
plastic bags for screws, nuts, clips and other small parts.
Have fun, and good luck!
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Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 00:25:52 BST