13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
11:06 p.m.
On 13 Aug 2012 at 22:14, mc68010 wrote:
Now days people often put on hearing protection before
for going into
the racks. The density is so much greater now though. It is insanely
loud. I just look at these pictures and wonder how it compares. That
is still a lot of fans and machines grinding away. Everyone always
looks so calm and like it isn't in the pictures though. Looks like
they can talk normally and not have to scream.
Not scream, but raise your voice somewhat. I'd say that the constant
noise component was in the 80-85 dB range. Some folks used to wear
those yellow foam sound-deadening earplugs if an extended stay was
anticipated. We had a big open box of them in the office.
It wasn't so much that it was bad for your hearing, but it was like
slowly boiling your nerves, at least for me.
--Chuck