4 Oct
2011
4 Oct
'11
1:49 p.m.
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, steven stengel wrote:
The gas bottle by the hard drive said
"Helium" on it - very weird. It seems unlikely that the hard drive is
Helium-tight. For cooling?
The original hard disk on the Air Force AN/FYQ-93 (based on a Hughes
H5118ME central computer and four HMP-1116 peripheral processors) used a
similar setup. One of the preventive maintenance tasks was to
check the pressure and pump function.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/