At 12:05 PM -0400 3/24/10, Ethan Dicks wrote:
so since they were large and green (because of the
solder mask), one
of our student employees nailed a bunch of them to a wooden frame in
an irregular isosceles triangle pattern and made a "COMBOARD Christmas
Tree" (using 9-track write rings as ornaments and tractor-feed
tearoffs as garlands). Because the boards were rendered more unusable
(as computer peripherals) by drilling nail holes in them, it was
considered an acceptable re-use. I wish I had a picture of it still.
The mainframe site that I worked at in the Navy in the early 90's
took disk packs after degassing them and disassembled them for the
platters. When someone transferred to another command everyone would
engrave a message onto the platter, and it would get framed, and
given to that person. I still have mine, though I'm not sure where
in the garage it is. :-)
Zane
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