I wonder if you were battling tin whiskers. NASA had to deal with
those on some of their space-race spacecraft.
Jon
snip
We had a bunch of Amdahl 6280's that had a problem with a string of some
metallic substance that would grow (as a crystal) from the nameplate
down to the platter.
/snip
, 2008 10:40 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Video of mainframe being shaken
Hi all,
for those of you who attended SHARE - in Cheryl's session on Friday she
showed a video of a mainframe being shaken on an earthquake simulation
machine while it was processing transactions.
Do any of you know
Skip this if off-subject stuff irritates you...just some Friday war stories.
Speaking of vibration testing...I remember back sometime in the 1970's we
had an intermittent storage director.
After a few SEV1 failures IBM would auto-escalate the support issue to page
somebody
and another guy in
Speaking of vibration testing...I remember back sometime in the 1970's we had
an intermittent storage director.
We had a bunch of Amdahl 6280's that had a problem with a string of some
metallic substance that would grow (as a crystal) from the nameplate down to
the platter.
If it touched the
Hi all,
for those of you who attended SHARE - in Cheryl's session on Friday she
showed a video of a mainframe being shaken on an earthquake simulation
machine while it was processing transactions.
Do any of you know where I can find that video?
Thanks.
Corneel
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