On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:19 AM Rick Bensene via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> Bill wrote: > > The guy that took me on the tour said that the wall behind the drum had to > be specially reinforced as if the drum exited the reinforced cabinet due to > some kind of failure while at speed, it would have gone through any > conventional wall like it was made of paper, and another wall which was the > side of the building, and would have fallen 6 floors to the ground below, > which obviously would have been disastrous. > > Apparently if there was a failure, due to the direction the drum rotated > it'd come out the back of the cabinet rather than the front. I was also > told that the drum cabinet had special mounting that was a large structure > of steel beams in the mezzanine level beneath the datacenter that connected > the mounts to the main support beams for the building, because the > gyroscopic effects of the drum would have torn out anything else. > > The mounts had to be inspected every six months to look for cracks or any > other sign of stress-induced problems. > > -Rick > A computer that literally required a specifically steel-reinforced building in order to operate. Now that's what you call Old Iron. Sellam
