[rescue] What a load of...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com>
>Date: 2007/09/25 Tue PM 09:28:26 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] What a load of...

>On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 21:55 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:56:04 -0500 (CDT)
>> Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Sun machines!
>> > 
>> > I just dropped off about 24 Sun boxes to Rich K., who intends to get them
>> > to Univ. of Maryland Linux Club members over the next few days...
<snip>

>> Car?
>> 
>> What kind of "car" do you have?  One of those battleship sized Chryslers from
>> the early 70s, insides hollowed out for carrying stuff?

No, I have a BMW X5 and Rick has a Subaru Wagon.

>I moved about 20 Sun systems in my Ford Taurus, and the backseat wasn't
>even full. Admittedly, they were mostly sparc32s (and thus, taking up
>half the space of Lionel's Ultras), but still. 
>
>Not that this should in any way diminish his achievement. :)

I could have fit another dozen or so systems in the car easily (the piles were only as high as the window line, views were not obstructed by systems), but I saw no point in bringing so many systems to Rick that they wouldn't all fit in his car...

My real concern was the suspension - and braking distance ;^)

Lionel