31 Oct
2010
31 Oct
'10
4:12 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
I have a vivid memory of an IBM CE holding a
broomstick with a magnet
on the end of it fishing out bits of fractured core out of the oil-
immersed memory of a 7090... :)
"Check the oil" was part of routine maintenance on that old iron.
--Chuck
So how does a single core fail? A crack I guess. Maybe overheating that
could change the characteristics of the core materials.
-chuck