[SunRescue] Tape drive (VAXentoyz)

[Dave McGuire]

On May 21, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> > Also, I have some relatives in the Dallas / Fort Worth
> > area coming up at the end of the week - are any of those vaxes portable
> > enough to make a plane trip cheaply?
> 
> VAX portable in plane??????  YIKES.... you need a 747 cargo job to
> moove them.....(:+}}...
> 
> Typically the MVII minimal size is 100+ lbs, and maybe 100 lbs for
> shipping materials.  That is rather hefty carryon or even checkin
> baggage!  Your average MVII even in BA23 cabinet is all I can do
> to drag around the house.  I can imagine what the baggage smashers
> would do to one.....
> 
> The VAXstation 2000 might be possible, as would some of the smaller
> 3/4000 series VAXen.  A 3100/M76 would make a nice machine.  One of
> the smaller 4000 series might be nice, too.

  Possible?  Heh...the '2000 is trivial.  About the size of a standard
school-style lunch box.

  -Dave McGuire