HP3000 Marketing Collateral

All the pictures labeled "Data Center x", except for number 5, were taken in live data centers. We had enough on the Cupertino site that we could just roll a new system in and do the shoot. Several of the pictures were actually not staged except for the models.? Re. noise in the data center - yes they could be loud. When I was in college in the mid-1970s I worked as the weekend operator for an IBM 370/155 and DEC-2050. There was a lot of fan noise. Not so much you couldn't hold a conversation, but you did have to yell to be around across the machine room. The only piece of equipment we had that had significant noise reduction was the IBM printer (1403?). The interesting thing about noise in the machine room is how quiet it is when everything is turned off.? ? Lee Courtney ________________________________ From: mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:08 PM Subject: Re: HP3000 Marketing Collateral On 8/13/2012 8:33 PM, Jason T wrote: Being a little young to have actually in data centers like these but, having worked with some of the gear later and worked in more modern data centers, how are they working in all that noise ? I realize these are ad shots but, all the the normal operation shots make it look like that is how it was done. Well, minus any women of course. How loud was it really ? Say in something like this http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/HtmlHelp/Images2/IBM7094.… I've never seen much soundproofing on mainframe gear so, I assume it must have been really loud in there.