Aphorism (Was: Computers that never crash (Was: Microsoft-Paul Allen)

[dwight]

I had an Ultra Sparc machine that ran continuously for more than 5 years except for maybe 2 power outages and a couple time to vacuum it out. The only failure was one day the disk drive let out a stream of smoke. It was a tantalum capacitor. It burned the board. IT was going to give me a new drive. I said, " No Way". I had a lot of data on that disk. I asked for one of their failing disk, unsoldered the matching capacitor, scraped the carbonized PC board of and soldered the replacement capacitor in. It ran until I was force to give up the machine when we moved buildings.

Dwight


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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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Subject: Aphorism (Was: Computers that never crash (Was: Microsoft-Paul Allen)

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> "If it doesn't crash, you're not running a sufficiently varied and
> demanding workload."

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