> On Dec 20, 2017, at 7:42 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > > We had a 3850 mass storage at IBM in Cosham when I worked there in 1978. > One of the cartridges came off the arm one day and broke a window. > > They were like a small artillery round with a wide spool of magnetic inside > that wrapped round a drum. All in 4 seconds!
Wayne, One of our CE’s had varied one of the “arms” (I no longer remember names) offline. He was physically in the box when the robot arm actually almost hit him. From then on they were extremely careful about doing maintenance during the day. My memory also says one time the doors to the unit were open and the 3850 shot a cartridge out and it went about 40 feet. Didn’t hurt anyone or anything. Our 3850 was right next to a window on the 6th floor. The windows were special in the fact that you could see out but not see in (which brings up a side story) one night we were working late (1130P) and I got up from my desk and noticed that a room in the hotel across from us was very brightly lit. So I looked over in the direction and they were shooting a porn movie! We turned the lights off and enjoyed watching the show. For weeks they had operators taking their lunches by the windows so to see if they could catch anything. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
