Re: Moving an 810, any gotchas?

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saw him the last time COMMON was in Chicago.  Went out drinking 
(naturally) at his favorite bar ("Norm!").  Get a card from him every 
Christmas.  He's out of the computer business, but I forget exactly what 
he's doing now exactly.  Something to do with office set-ups and tear 
downs (naturally). 

	* Jerry C. Adams
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Paul Nelson wrote:
> Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Anybody heard from Chuck?
>
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> Chuck Myaard and I used to disassemble a rack mounted AS/400 2 or 3 
> times each COMMON Conference (this was when everything was still 
> twinax).  Frequently had issues with a dumb terminal or two, but never 
> with the /400.  Later we used to roll a C10 (I think it was, the short 
> file cabinet, anyway) on the hotel carts - often times across tiled 
> floors. 
>
> Similar to Paul, I threw a 150 in the backseat of my pickup a couple of 
> years ago.  Except for the fact it's on V3 something, it works.  Did the 
> same thing with a Baby/36; still works.
>
> We moved our 520 last year about six feet.  Took a photo of the cable 
> connections beforehand, and then my boss and I just carried it.  We roll 
> our 720 from corner-to-corner every time we "re-decorate" in the 
> computer room.  It's not plugged in so I can't say if it still works, 
> but it did the last time we plugged it in (a year ago after being moved 
> around); of course, it's on casters.
>
> Going way back, to get our S/3 to the second floor computer room (no 
> elevators), put it on a forklift and just eased it to the landing  
> (those puppies were heavy).  Another company I knew back then, used a 
> crane to lift theirs from the delivery truck to the fifth floor (again, 
> no elevators). 
>
> I think the moral is: These things take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.  
> But due diligence is always appropriate.
>
> 	* Jerry C. Adams
> *IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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> James Lampert wrote:
>   
> > Never owned an 810. But we've had (during my own tour of duty) a B20 a 
> > D02, a C04, a 200, a 40s, 2 150s, 2 170s (1 slim, 1 fat), and a 510 (and 
> > a 500 used for parts).
> >
> > We've moved them all, without trouble. We even moved the D02 short 
> > distances while powered-up and running on its internal battery (when it 
> > had one).
> >
> > We've rolled the 510 around on its own casters. Over carpet. Big pain in 
> > the butt. Anything we've got that's bigger than a "slim" 170, but too 
> > small to have casters of its own, lives on its own dedicated 4-wheel
> >     
> dolly.
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