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[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> I wish I had a picture.... when I was back in San Jose I
> drove the '58 to work. We had purcahsed two SS20s complete
> with monitors and I used the '58 to transport them to the
> office. SS20s + one monitor (17") in trunk, 19" in the
> passenger seat. I miss that SS20-- 8M VSIMM 256M of RAM
> and 150Mhz Ross. *sigh*

On a trip up to San Jose from L.A., I managed to pack 8 of the large Sun
rackmount drive trays into my '78 Dodge Diplomat (4D sedan), plus 2
passengers and a bunch of extra drives. That included about 60 5.25" FH
hard drives with a total weight of well over half a ton. 

Fortunately I had the HD police package rear suspension.  Unfortunately on
the trip home I had a tread separation on the front tire and had to change
to the spare.  The only place I could find to park was on a hill (coming
down I80 and I didn't want to drive farther on the bad tire) so we used a
pair of the drive trays to chock the wheels before jacking it up.

I'm happy to report that Sun rackmount drive trays keep a 5000lb vehicle
from rolling down a hill very well.

-James