[geeks] home at last

[Dave McGuire]

   Hoo boy.  Finally got home Sunday night.  I was gone for about 2.5 
weeks, my cat has been glued to me since I walked in the door.  It's 
good to be home.

   Most of the point of this trip was to unload my storage locker in MD, 
though it also involved the pickup of two piles of PDP11 hardware in PA 
and the transfer of a large quantity of VAX hardware from Maryland to 
Brian Hechinger's place in PA.  The truck weighed in at roughly 
35,000lbs at the weigh station.  Its unladen weight is listed at 
12,500lbs.  A little subtraction says there's 22,500lbs of stuff in the 
box of that truck.  Needless to say, driving it down to FL 
was...interesting.  Some of the highlights:

   Two *BIG* PDP-11/70 systems in corpcabs with TE16 magtape drives
   Two VAX4000-400 systems
   A VAX4000-300 system
   A VAX-11/730 system
   Numerous MicroVAX-II and -III systems
   Numerous smaller PDP11 systems including a MINC-11
   Two Cray YMP-EL98 supercomputers
   A Lintronic L300 phototypesetter
   Three DEC H960 racks full from top to bottom with test equipment
     (most of which was just stacked there for travel)
   Vacuum pump and chiller for the electron microscope

   So now begins the unloading process.  The big deal here was ditching 
the [very expensive] storage locker and getting some stuff that I've 
been needing for work for several months.  Thanks to George Adkins, Dan 
Mayfield, Brian Hechinger, Linc and Michele Fessenden, Jason Colton, 
Todd Holden, Keith Shaffer, and Kiran Wagle for making this happen.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire                      "Dammit, now I wants me some
St. Petersburg, FL                  livers 'n gizzards."    -Bill 
Bradford