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[beermat]

I like the new VAXen that's joined the DECherd here at Chateaux Wedges. Another cabinet in the style of the BA213 MicroVAX3800 I already had. I'll get some pictures of it up somewhere soon. The cabinet has castors (uni directional - currently), and is 540mil wide, 450mil deep & 700mil high. I should mod them and add a towbar coupling so I could have a train of DECcabs, with a nice little steam engine pulling them around. Called Ivor, natch.

Getting power to the VAXen might be difficult, perhaps a battery carrige & invertor after the steam engine. Comms, no problem, DECnet them together & plonk an Apple Airport on it (on the comms carriage of course).

Before you know it, I'll have them all underground with an escaped Mind hiding in the Command and Control trains & have a Culture team sent in to try to save it...

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I once played Doom on an Apricot VX server - a 3' tall fridge-shaped box with a motorized door and integral BFO UPS, which was, at the time, being pushed along a long office corridor by my boss. Who was giggling. My wheelie-chair was being pushed along by a colleague. In fact, I think we were all giggling... (Powering its own 14" colour SVGA monitor, too. Good machine. I think we'd just spent some hours coaxcing SCO UNIX onto the thing and finally had it working...

[beermat]

Ah, how I sometimes miss office life. the fun of being silly (or just being!) with colleagues.

archaro was planning to make the VAX4000-200 he had off me into a freely moving independant beast (and pull its little disk drive cabinet along on a tether), must try to find where off the net he's disappeared to and see how it goes...

[lproven.livejournal.com]

You promised us pictures! We want pictures!

[beermat]

I did?
Oh.
Don't remember that (but there's a surprise, greg forgetting something, eh!)

Will have to motorise the BA213 style cabinets currently in the shed. They've bred. there are now 10 of them!

[lproven.livejournal.com]

In an LJ post somewhere near here...

Get to it! We want piccies and screenshots!

[beermat]

OK, if it is a nice dry day, I'll wheel the VAXenheard out onto the lawn and do some concept shots :)