On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Robert F Schaefer wrote:

> I heard about two VAX looking for a good home on c.o.v, and I offered to
> take them in if he couldn't find a buyer.  One is a VAX 4300, the other a
> 6130, located in Newark, Ohio.  I've seen pictures of the 4300, and I feel
> pretty confident I could manage it myself if I had to, but I've never laid
> eyes on a 6xxx cabinet before.

Well, it'll be the same as the VAX 6000-420.  I'm still getting the rest
of the pics together, but here's one of Gunther and I getting ready to
angle the VAX back in order to wheel it onto the lift.

  http://world.std.com/~bdc/pics/vax6000-420.jpg

> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> > While you'd likely survive any incident that caused the load to leave the
> > vehicle, a 1200lb VAX landing on top of a car would flatten it, to say
> > nothing about someone hitting it at speed once it came to rest.
>
> This is making me a little nervous.  Is 1200 lbs a normal config, or all
> decked out with everything that'll fit?  I remember hearing some 300+
> kilos, which is doable, but I'm not sure I wanna put 1000+ in the back of
> the pickup.

Everything I've seen and read puts them at about 318kg without drives and
the battery backup option for the RAM.  And the ones we moved were
definitely not anywhere near 1200lbs.  As you can tell by the picture,
Gunther and I are not rippling with muscles.  Nor did we even gain any
sort of "mass" advantage on the VAX by being overweight.

-brian.