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It might have been a 5.9 if it weren't for all those mainframe
gyro-stabilizer disks
How many people remember the infamous bad bearings in the 3390 disks? I
still have one on my desk. And remember IBM's solution? Since
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Subject: Re: Wow! Rockin' Rollin' the Mainframe Stayed Up!
Gee, the only time I ever was in an earthquake, I slept through it.
They
had one several months ago in Illinois. I hear they felt it in
Milwaukee,
and a few people who were awake felt it in Des Moines, where I
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The earthquake in Illinois was a little action along the New
Madrid Fault Zone which centers around southeastern Missouri,
northeastern Arkansas, and western Tennessee. The last time
it really acted
In a message dated 7/30/2008 7:48:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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was that it also turned the drive into a seismograph. If you got a
particular error code (I'm not sure I remember what it was, but 9F9F seems
to be stuck in my head), you needed to
either get the
I never heard of that fault line. Thanks for giving me peace of mind!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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The earthquake in Illinois was a little action along the New Madrid
Fault
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I never heard of that fault line. Thanks for giving me peace of mind!
Eric
Wow!! Did you feel that?!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393781,00.html
The phones are still squirrelly. But, the mainframe didn't skip a beat!
Those ISO-Base Seismic Isolation Platforms -- from Worksafe Technologies
-- *really* work!
http://www.worksafetech.net/isobase.html
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Wow!! Did you feel that?!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,393781,00.html
Nope, didn't feel a thing. But then, I slept through the Sylmar event
back in '71 (or '72; I forget) while stationed at
It might have been a 5.9 if it weren't for all those mainframe
gyro-stabilizer disks
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Maybe a 2.9 if there weren't so many squatty boxes weighing down the
fault line.
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Rugen, Len
It might have been a 5.9 if it weren't for all those mainframe
gyro-stabilizer disks
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In a message dated 7/29/2008 2:05:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Wow!! Did you feel that?!
Preliminary reports are 5.8 tembler 29mi ESE of LA. Fire department labeled
it 'major seismic event'. One of the cable news channel correspondents was
vacationing with
February 9, 1971 - I was up studying for a chemistry test (that was cancelled
'cos the Jr College was closed...) It was felt ALL OVER the San Fernando
Valley...
John Hamman
Senior Systems Programmer
BlueCross BlueShield of Mississippi
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It might have been a 5.9 if it weren't for all those
mainframe gyro-stabilizer disks
Just got word that the folks who work in our Distribution Center there
got some fresh air sunshine for about a
Gee, the only time I ever was in an earthquake, I slept through it. They
had one several months ago in Illinois. I hear they felt it in Milwaukee,
and a few people who were awake felt it in Des Moines, where I was at the
time. My brother-in-law felt it on the farm near Platteville in
: Re: Wow! Rockin' Rollin' the Mainframe Stayed Up!
Gee, the only time I ever was in an earthquake, I slept through it. They
had one several months ago in Illinois. I hear they felt it in Milwaukee,
and a few people who were awake felt it in Des Moines, where I was at the
time. My
Maybe we'll get better updates as the members chime in...There is a reason
we do those DR drills for sure!
Basically the first thing I thought this morning when I heard about the earth
quake was: Now, how did Skip and SCE do?
Didn't know about these gyro plates. And slept through the only
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