[Info-vax] Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us

[Paul Sture]

In article <kk4ghs$dgk$1 at online.de>,
 helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
 wrote:

> In article <nospam-2A551E.16341610042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
> 
> > >     (Those who recognize the term probably all have grey hair.)
> 
> Well, the beard is turning grey.
> 
> > Yep.  I wonder if Phillip has seen an 11/780?
> 
> I had one, or something similar, in my car once.  Someone offered to 
> give away some hardware (I was interested in terminals) and said he 
> would rather have one person take it all.  I figured I could pass on 
> anything I didn't need, but was surprised by this beast.  It was a 
> refrigerator-size rack, either an early VAX or a PDP.  (Come to think of 
> it, probably the latter; perhaps one can find my old posts on this.)  I 
> had 12 offers to take it within 24 hours.  I had a 1994 Polo "estate", 
> i.e. the one with two doors but the long windows in the back, 
> essentially a 2-door estate.  With the front seats pushed all the way to 
> the front and the rear hatch open, it just fit.  It also included 
> software on 10-inch floppies.
> 
> As to the chap who took it---now THAT'S a collector!

While Polos were surprisingly capacious I don't think a full size 11/780 
would fit in one.  A PDP seems more likely.

According to

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/182/736

"Dimensions
overall: 60 in x 48 in x 30 in"

The ones I used didn't have the side cabinet seen in the photo there; 
the disks were free standing RM05 drives. A brief search brought up this 
photo:

http://home.ntelos.net/~donbryan/Don/Pics/my_disk.jpg

-- 
Paul Sture