[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

Sridhar the POWERful vance at ikickass.org
Tue Mar 26 02:11:59 CST 2002


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:

> > Hmm.  Adrenaline.  I once had a DECsystem 5810 fall on me from a height of
> > almost two feet.  For those who don't know, it's the same,
> > chassis/supplies/backplanes as a VAX 6000.  It's heavy.  It was on me for
> > about 3/4 seconds.  What I said was, "AAH!".  After that 3/4 second, which
> > felt more like half an hour, we rolled the machine into my garage.  I was
> > sore for a week afterwards.
>
> Gee... I'd like some pictures of that. (the machine, that is)
> Never seen one, but then again, I've seen PLENTY of VAX 6xxx. :-)

Well, it's identical, except for the badge, and the CPU cards.  The CPU
cards have MIPS R3000's on them.

Peace...  Sridhar



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