Friends help you move. True friends help you move racks.

[unixronin]

With the aid of captoblivion, we made a roundtrip to Virginia Beach and hauled back a truckload of free hardware.  darthgeek was scheduled to be bringing his van, but his wife and daughter came down sick yesterday and he couldn't make it.  Fortunately, through ingenuity, mindless exertion and generous application of ratchet tie-downs, we managed to get everything into and safely secured in captoblivion's pickup.  We scored two Digital 72" full-cabinet racks, three Alphaserver 4000s (at least one of which is incomplete, but at least one looks runnable), and 10 DEC Storageworks disk arrays, all for the effort of loading and unloading them.  We mainly wanted the racks.  The included Alpha hardware is gravy.

Said loading took us about two hours.  Unloading them and getting them into the trailer took almost four hours, including paring down the surface of the front deck with a hatchet (the trailer's subsiding faster than the deck is) and removing a large chunk of the deck railing to that we could get the front screen door open all the way, instead of it hitting the rail at 60° opening.  (It was a really stupidly designed railing.  We may or may not replace it with a better one.)

I'll take a full inventory tomorrow or Monday,  Right now, I'm exhausted.

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Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I've got one of the mini-desktop Alphas in storage; one of these years I'll figure out how to boot the damn thing and put Debian or OpenBSD on it.... unless somebody else gets into the area and decides he wants more Alphas.. :)

Nice icon, JD. :)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Could probably actually afford to run that. ;)