PDP1 3523
Seems likely.
Firearms might do a more complete job, but it fouling up the hardware due to debug frustration didn't require them. Many years back I managed DP for a warehouse. We had an IBM System III...
A fellow I worked with a while back talked about how they got some big IBM into and out of a basement location at the school he went to.
The "in" part was similar to the slide-down-the -stairs described earlier in the thread. This stairwell they used opened directly into the main lobby of the building. It was one of those four-sided things with an open area in the center. Like this: construction. Anyway, they took out the section of rail facing the lobby, put some 4"X4" across the next level up and lowered it to the basement floor from there with a block and tackle.
of as a book. Yup. That's what I have called user thruput. I've found that very few people who design systems consider this as a number one goal. This habit is...
However, came time to take it out, the stairwell had been redone. There was now an artistic-like brick wall on the side facing the lobby, so reversing the trick used to bring it in wouldn't work. They briefly considered taking it up to the second floor, where there was still just a railing, and just pushing it out a window into the dumpster below, but a quick check with a tape measure showed that only a couple of the smaller bits would go out the windows accessible from the 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) floor lobby. The main cabinets were all too big. But there a couple of those 1-4 height basement windows up near the ceiling. So, they went at the machine with wire cutters, screw drivers and a ratchet set, pbutting parts out the window as they got them out, until all they were left with just the cabinets. Their plan had been to break them up with sledge hammers. Didn't work. They wouldn't break up. So they finished the job with chisels and hack saws. Took days.
- Bill