8 Jul
2001
8 Jul
'01
11:02 p.m.
Mike Ford wrote:
I am kinda curious, an HP Exemplar (with 16 processors, but not many
drives) recently passed through a surplus joint I visit along with a
jukebox for magnetoptical discs. Both gone now, did I miss something neat?
I don't know about the HP Exemplar, but the juke box is nothing special.
In my experience they were very unreliable and dodgy. In years past,
I've often had my dual cubicle filled with transport cases from HP
support awaiting the engineer to spend a day or two trying to diagnose
the latest fault. It would have been far quicker if they had wheeled in
a replacement and swapped the 30 MO platters.
Apparently the robotics were exceedingly flaky. I often throught they
would have been great if they could have been adapted as a CDrom
jukebox, but even in Oz, the economics of putting the CD contents onto
hard disk soon took over.
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