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In article <1992Apr13.034106.6206@mercury.unt.edu> cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams) writes:
>In <s103nINNs5u@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
>>I finally got the chance to buy a Plexus P60+.  This machine, for the
>>majority of you who have never heard of it, is a 68020 machine running
>>SYSV.  It has 24 serial ports, a full-size magtape drive, and two fujitsu
>>super eagle 545 MB hard drives.
>>
>>It is also very heavy.
>
>So are two PDP 11/34a's, with two RL05s and an RK07, plus an RX211,
>various cabinet hardware, media, etc.
>
>>Have I mentioned yet that I live on the second floor of a non-elevator
>>apartment house?  Didn't think so. . .
>
>Hey, me too!
>
>>After having taken the tape drive out (about 100 pounds), it took me and
>>four of my friends approximately 30 minutes to get it up the stairs.  There
>>were 17 of them. . . BTW, the stairs have since broken, and are now being
>>fixed.
>>
>>The thing is a monster.  Weighs around 500-600 pounds, 5" high, 3" wide, 2"
>>deep.  It generates a fair amount of heat, especially since it's in my
>>bedroom, which is very small. . . It's basically a combination computer /
>>jet engine / heater...
>
>Yeah, all total, I think my computer would weigh something like that, 
>probably on the heavy side of 600. Three 5'x2'x3' cabinets (I DO hope
>you meant ' and not " on your measurements). Unfortunately, me and
>my dad couldn't get it up the stairs, so it's sitting in his garage
>in Fort Worth.
>
>>But considering the fact that I paid $801 for it. . .
>
>Heh. Mine was _FREE_. :-)
>
>>-- 

You didn't "negotiate" enough...  2 years ago we finally decided to get rid of
an old Vax 11/750.  We had kept it because of a few software packages that some
could not "do" without.  We advertised it for sale, and got one response for
$210 (210 bucks.)  When we called to accept (grudgingly) we were asked to make 
the check payable to .....  you got it.... we had to pay to have it hauled
away.  You might could have gotten a couple of hundred to cart yours away from
its prior owner if you had Iacocca on your side....   :^)

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!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !