speaking of loud, i worked in a small computer room
back in 1992 and when i
came in one afternoon, it was quieter than normal. turns out the ac units
werent running so those units themselves make plenty of noise. even louder
was the IBM 3380/3880 (cant remember which) DASD units of which there were 4
^^^^
rows of them. quite impressive for their size and
noisy, probably due to
the
belt drive mechanism. later they were replaced with
one small row of hitachi
drives which were mcuh quieter and had almost 2x the capacity, I was told.
That is not much of a suprise, as the 3380s were probably fairly old then
(although there are many flavors of them). There are probably some still
in use, as I see them in the junkyards. Large and fast...
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net