shorter 19" racks (was Re: Suggestions for rackmount floppy mounting)

[Paul Anderson]

On 8/14/07, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/07, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
> > All this talk has inspired me to get a rack.  But do such things exist
> > as "personal" racks and/or half-height racks?  Or should I be resigned
> > to just finding a full-height rack somewhere for $400 and find a place
> > to put it?  (I have only about 10us of stuff to rack -- two scan
> > converters, two computers, that's it...)
>
> 6' and taller racks are the most common in my experience, but there
> were plenty of 4' and shorter racks made, too.
>
> I just picked up a really short DEC rack from Patrick at VCFmw.  I'd
> quote the model number, but it's hundreds of miles away and I can't
> check the label.  It was a semi-common item - it originally contained
> a PDP-11/03 and RX01 and has approx 21" of rack space (12 U) and a
> wood-grain Formica top.
>
> DEC also made a large number of 42" cabinets with a curved-top profile
> that was meant to be suitable for office or machine-room environments.
> They will hold 3 RL02s or a CPU and two drives or whatever (approx 18
> U, plus room in the bottom-back for a 3 U power controller (with a
> kick-plate in the front).


These were probably H9612, H9613, or H9642's.


 A bit older than those were some
> similar-height racks from the 11/34 and PDP-8/e era with 3"-ish-tall
> 45-degree bevel/bezel on the top-front-edge, but I think those might
> be a bit rarer.


Sounds like the H967.

Paul

If you want just your "10 U" and not any more, the table-topped rack I
> described would work.  If, OTOH, you would rather have things more
> than a few inches off the ground, you could use a 42" rack and load it
> from the top down (and have room in the future for more toys ;-)
>
> -ethan
>