RE: Stacking 5094s

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HP's top of the line unix server used to be the V-class.  The V-class was a
dense washing machine-sized cube designed to be stacked:

http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RRZ/Dienste/Exemplar/vclasswp1.jpg

I couldn't imagine how you would accomplish it.  The V-class was so heavy
that it left dents in the floor of our data center.  Our SE told us that
required a special lift and at least three strong guys.

It's nice to know IBM hasn't cornered the market on bad cabinet engineering.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:27 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Stacking 5094s




IBM doesn't allow you to upgrade 5094's, because it is physically humanly
impossible to lift one of those suckers.

There was a company that made a product called something like "Stacker/400"
when the "Advanced Series came out using lot's of floor space, but I am
unsure of it's status today.

Al

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