11/44 rescue complete

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Oct 1 00:27:01 2002

  A rescue not without it's glitches and travails - from the fact that it
took somewhere plus-or-minus a year to get the equipment released from the
Large Company where it had been mothballed - only the dedication of it's
former sysop kept it from the Dumpster of Death, to several hurdles that
had to be danced around in actually effecting rescue process. Thanks to
Sellam for orginally brining it to my attention.

  Thanks to Marvin who, on very short notice, drove over 400 miles round
trip to pick up the System, and whose van subsequently broke down and
required towing to a service center, with the computers and software and
manuals still loaded. Thanks also to two non-listmembers who went out of
thier way to help us - one of whom worked for the aforementioned service
center, where the Poor Van got locked inside for the evening, even though
Marv requested that it be left out so we could transload it...

  I now have 2 11/44s set up as mirrored systems - if one failed the other
could be switched over 'easily' - 2 SCSI HDs of unknown capacity (they're
full-height and look like Seagates from the front - 1 RL02 - and an 11/23
used as a serial line concentrator. The system runs RSX-11M. A Blue Wall
came with it, and about 20 diskpacks.

  Perhaps this coming weekend I will find the time to power it up and see
how it's journey of years of storage and a thousand miles in vans and
pickup trucks has treated it.


  Here's hoping it's still Happy!!


  Cheers and thanks to all who helped!


John
Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 00:27:01 BST