7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
12:08 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Brings a shudder to me after many years.
Raised flooring = rats, mice and roaches and all manner of
unspeakable stuff gunking things up, particularly spilled soft drinks
and coffee.
Dropped ceiling = spiders, incredible amounts of dust, and the
fiberglass insulation that filters down from the roof insulation.
Itchy, itchy, itchy.
You must have worked in special places.
My first personal experience crawling around a raised floor
installation was in a 500 sq ft mixed DEC and IBM machine room - a
couple of VAX-11/750s, a few PDP-11s, and an IBM 4331. There was lots
of dust under the floor, but no goo and no vermin. I know how dirty
it was because I (and the company owner) moved 100% of the equipment
when we changed buildings ten years later. We built the new machine
room in the open in air-conditioned space in a 3000 sq ft warehouse -
I set the posts and built the skirt myself. I even recovered all the
floor parts when the company closed some years later - they are
stacked in my quonset hut waiting for me to build the new building
next door.
Even the massive data centers I worked in at Lucent weren't nasty
under the floor - just dusty.
As for overhead wiring - I've only had that at places that were built
to an open plan - so lots of overhead wire management, but no dust or
spiders or insulation raining down on us, just cascades of cables.
So where have you worked that was so dirty and infested?
-ethan