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> Tom Brennan
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> Interesting
Indeed. Long ago, at Mitre -- relatively small account (360/50 running OS/MVT
when I joined, 4341 and 4381 running VM as Single System Image when I left)
that punched above its weight, we had an FE room with supplies/manuals/etc. --
including microcode listings as long as they were available
after that, fixed drives and a tape backup
system were on order.
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Jesse 1 Robinson
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Legendary
it
was... disappointing, as was most non-IBM hardware and software in the 80's
and 90's.
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No kidding. Long ago, monitor on a friend's PS/2 failed. Being a mainframer she
was accustomed to calling IBM for software/hardware support -- so she called
Support Center. They scheduled a visit. I was home, fellow showed up in
unmarked white van, swapped monitors, cleaned up minimal packing
that, fixed drives and a tape backup
system were on order.
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Legendary
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>Legendary--possibly apocryphal--story of the of the 3330 pack that got warped
>enough to ruin heads but did not itself disintegrate. Over zealous operator
>moved the pack from one drive to another l
From a friend:
I believe the head crash story is true. I worked in The Mill and had
heard about that. Lending credibility to that story was another: that on
hot days in the summer, before the Mill was air conditioned, lanolin
used to seep out of the wooden floors and you could easily slip and
Brennan
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Interesting story! The only time I've actually seen a head crash was on
an old 3330 where I had just popped in a RES pack. I walked over to the
hardware console to IPL
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Brennan
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Interesting story! The only time I've actually seen a head crash was on
an old 3330 where I had just popped
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> Interesting story! The only time I've actually seen a head crash was on
> an old 3330 where I had just popped in a RES pack. I walked over to the
> hardware console to IPL - the old 3270 where you
: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK
We had a fun one ...
We had a STK Silo and we were getting "random" late afternoon barcode read
error from the camera inside the Silo, CE would be called, Could find nothing
wrong. This went on for about month or so, Not every day but a few tim
We had a fun one ...
We had a STK Silo and we were getting "random" late afternoon barcode read
error from the camera inside the Silo, CE would be called, Could find nothing
wrong. This went on for about month or so, Not every day but a few times a
week,
It stumped everyone, So the next
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Legendary--possibly apocryphal--story of the of the 3330 pack that got warped
enough to ruin heads but did not itself disintegrate. Over zealous operator
moved the pack from one
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Interesting story! The only time I've actually seen a head crash was on an old
3330 where I had just popped in a RES pack. I walked over to the hardware
console to IPL - the old 3270 where you had
Interesting story! The only time I've actually seen a head crash was on
an old 3330 where I had just popped in a RES pack. I walked over to the
hardware console to IPL - the old 3270 where you had to type L1/A2 or
whatever those commands were. The hardware console told me I had an I/O
Many years ago I had friends in old DEC building in Maynard, MA. They had story
of periodic head crashes on monster disk drives with vertically spinning
platters. They realized cause: trucks backing into loading dock hitting and
shaking the building -- since platters were oriented
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:35:39 -0400, Mark Regan wrote:
>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3388298/incoming.html
>
Somehow similar, a GPS rollover glitch took down (some) NYC wireless
communications last week:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/nyregion/nyc-gps-wireless.html
... happens
ITschak Mugzach wrote:
>... investigation showed that the the people who cleans the computer room
>unplugged the power for the vacuum cleaner... The array was using a standard
>power plug.
Hahaha! I heard a similar, but false story. (
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/polished-off/ )
That reminds me another story. ten years ago a client of us installed a new
hitachi disk array. The technician installed and configured the array, but
for some reasons, it was not immediately used by the client. few days
later, the client tried to connect to the array and it was down. it was
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3388298/incoming.html
Regards,
Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991
Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017
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