O.K., Halon story - only time I've been in a "live" event. Flew interstate to do a system build as a relatively new sysprog. That meant sitting at the console - probably a 145. So this guy I didn't know walks in puffing on the fattest cigar you've ever seen. Probably done for effect - and it worked. I went off my tree. He told me to calm down - he was testing the Halon system. Was a collector under the floor that used air pressure to collect the smoke. So he lifts a tile and blows a pile of smoke in. Sure enuff, the collector does it's job, and the (isolated) alarm panel lights up like Christmas. Beaut.
He wanders off, and about 5 minutes later we get a full discharge and evacuation. He had re-armed the system with the smoke still in the detector... The tape librarian was trapped in the library when the electro-magnets dropped and the fire-door rolled shut. She weighed about 40 kilos wringing wet, and couldn't get it open to escape until we went back to get her. And of course it was at the far end of the computer room. *LOTS* of things got changed after that little fiasco. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
