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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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[captoblivion.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to point out that these two racks are now not only the dominant feature of their living room, but together are now the tallest and most stable structure in the entirity of Pitt County. I would beg you NEVER EVER EVER try to plug them in. I fear for the wildfires that you would cause from the resultant overload at the local electrical transformer.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that (a) nothing is connected together right now, and (b) there isn't a NEMA 5R30 outlet in the livingroom, I don't think that's too likely to become a problem. :)