22 Aug
2019
22 Aug
'19
12:09 p.m.
On Aug 22, 2019, at 2:57 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 06:30:10PM +0000, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
...
I'm reminded of a legendary story from a long time ago, of a DEC disk being
air-shipped to a customer. RP03? Not sure, but something of that size class.
The story was that the shipping company hadn't strapped it down properly, so when the
plane applied takeoff power, the drive slid backwards in the cargo hold. Fast enough to
exit the hold through the airplane skin, landing on the runway with a nice bounce.
The drive was taken back to Maynard, where it was observed that the corner of the frame
was badly bent. The techs propped it up on a cinder block and turned the drive on; it
worked fine.
Sure sounds like a fairy tale, but it's a fun one.
paul
Only UPS did ? and yes, the ?horror? stories
*are* true. They managed to drop
the package. Not from 4 inches above ground, but more, because a *steel
corner* had a dent!
Hence that old joke: "If being air dropped out of a C-130 into a minefield
constitutes 'moderately rough handling', what constitutes 'very rough
handling'?" "Being shipped UPS".