MCA systems

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue Aug 7 05:44:10 2001

I've lugged plenty of AS/400 and S/36 systems around for various reasons,
but they aren't really "personal" computers per-say. We hauled an IBM 6262
printer from a storage facility to my shop last week for repair - that is a
beast.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com
-> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:03 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: MCA systems
->
->
-> In a message dated 8/6/01 9:08:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
-> optimus_at_canit.se
-> writes:
->
-> << Russ Blakeman skrev:
->
-> >Heavy is putting it lightly on the 9595's - my 9595-OPT has a
-> 4.3 3.5" boot
-> >drive and two seagate FH 5.25" 9 gb drives besides the 1.2mb
-> floppy and the
-> >included 2.88 3.5" floppy and all the cards that go in it, including 2
-> >ethernet cards, XGA-2 card, 2 SCSI/2 F/W controllers, etc.
-> It's a hernia in
-> >the making.
->
-> My 8595 has got a yellow warning label in the back stating that
-> it weighs 18
-> kg+. I wonder if that's before or after adding full-height
-> drives (only one
-> in
-> mine =).
-> >>
-> heh, if you're talking about heavy IBM PC's, I got everyone
-> beat. How about
-> my PCRT or S/36 PC? those are heavy beasts!
->
-> --
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->
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->
Received on Tue Aug 07 2001 - 05:44:10 BST