Ted MacNEIL wrote: > In the early 1970's, there was a fire in the University of > Toronto Computer Room (well before the protection(s) we have today).
February 1977. Just coming up on the 30th anniversary. Been there, seen the flames, got the pictures. Learned many amazing lessons in DR/BC - something that almost no one in the commercial or academic worlds had given any serious thought to at the time. > I had to endure, 20 years later, stories by my, then, VP, but > previously the computer operations manager at UoT, about how > he had thought to grab the poles/racks (or whatever) and > strung them through the reels in the tape library, to rescue > as many as he could. The trick was in unscrewing the hooks from the tops of the coat stands so they would fit through the tape hubs. Two people each with one end of a pole on each shoulder can carry a lot of tapes very quickly that way. > Due to poor/untested backup/dr procedures a lot of master's/PHD work was still lost. I don't know of anyone whose computer work was lost. There were no DR procedures at all, but there were daily backups, and we had all systems up and running at an IBM site within 36 hours. What *was* lost was paper records and other academic work, but that was elsewhere in the building and not related to the Computer Centre. But I digress... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
