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I would be a lot more concerned about a subterranean machine room than
an earthquake. Water has an uncanny knack for finding the lowest point
as any owner of a basement would know. Its hard to flood anything on the
2nd floor without knocking the head off a fire sprinkler :-)
>>You thinking of a well known Aussie airline that decided to locate
their room below the water line a couple of streets back from the quay
in Sydney by any chance ???. Had a decent set of "bilge pumps" by all
accounts ...
Yeah that was a unique work of genius. Most of the other installations
in the city seemed to be on the 4th floor for no discernable reason. To
answer some of the other "when I were a lad" anecdotalists, I have
actually seen a brand new FACOM (Fujitsu/Amdahl) M750? Sitting on a
loading dock and totally destroyed by a hailstorm that blew up
unexpectedly while they were trying to get it inside its new digs. It
was one of those wild Sydney hailstorms in the late 80's with hail
stones the size of softballs and the damage they did was incredible. I
doubt much of anything was salvaged.
The customer in question was a rather troubled insurance company. There
was a vigorous discussion over whether it had in fact technically been
delivered on not since it was sitting (albeit trashed) on the customer's
loading dock. We had a huge giggle imagining the insurance claim.
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He may also have been thinking about the "Great Chicago Flood" of a few
years ago, when several prominent Chicago banks learned the folly of
computer rooms in basements and sub-basements.
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