In our case it was a 3081-KX which would have fit through the door pretty well. Wouldn't there have been the raised floor and a short ramp leading up to it just behind the door making up for a vertical challenge ... After some head scratching and a closer examination of the machine's interiors it was decided to leave the wall intact and to slice off part of the outer frame of the 3081. And so it happened. The machine was moved in, the cut-off pieces were welded back again and our 3081 ran merrily until it got replaced by one of Switzerland's first 9672's.
Oh yeah, those were the days. Robert -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Ted MacNEIL Gesendet: Samstag, 17. September 2005 14:01 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: STK Equipment too tall. When we installed a 3081-D, we didn't discover that the pieces would not fit through the 5th floor computer room door until the day we brought them up the elevator (where it did fit). They had to cut an opening in the wall. They had to pay a carpenter OT to do it, plus a fee to get him in on Sunday. Later, it was set up as an extra delivery door. >We have a skylight in the middle of our top floor lobby because back >when we moved into this building our equipment would not fit in the >elevators. So they put in the skylight and used a crane. I don't >believe we have needed it for many years, everything is smaller today. -teD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
