The connection between the units looks like an old transit coupler
(Lindall?) and is only slightly smaller.
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
> Geez Sellam, is that a Vax power cable or an elephant trunk?! hehe. It
> looks big enough to replace receptacles of a hook-up for an emergency power
> generator to a house, damn...
>
> -John Boffemmyer IV
>
> At 01:11 PM 3/8/2004, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >
> > > The VAX8600 was targeted at large IBM sites, so they put in an oversized
> > > power cable and receptacle, that was the same as for the IBM equipment
> > > they planned to replace.
> >
> >Yeah, check it out:
> >
> >http://www.siconic.com/computers/vax3.jpg
> >
> >It's bigger than my hand.
> >
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