21 May
2019
21 May
'19
3:30 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org>
On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via
cctalk
Sent: 21 May 2019 22:33
To: Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....
On 5/21/19 1:17 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
I think the joints were often tight. Otherwise you got drafts or a breeze.
Speaking of breezes, we found our plotter ( kept over-heating.)
Some one kept closing the floor vent.
We eventually found it was the plotter operator who was a young lady with a short skirt.
When loading the mag tape with the plots she had to stand over the vent which blew out
cold air,
So she closed the vent.....
... it took some tact to get this info, and we then moved the tile with the vent and the
plotter stayed cool...
At another place we had a disk drive drop through a tile. We had had the joiners make some
temporary tiles while we were having an upgrade.
The ran out of plywood and joined two scraps, but not very well. The rocking of the drive
broke the joint and the drive fell through.
We were surprised it kept working without a head crash....
I'm sure that was /a/ problem. But I'm
not comfortable attributing
that problem to the raised floor.
I expect that the same problem would be effected by an elevator that
doesn't stop perfectly level with the floor, or has too wide a gap
between the car and the floor, or even on tiled floor.
That really seems to me like it's a sub-optimal design, pushed past
it's operating parameters by overloading it.
I can't fault the raised floor for that problem.
No, but it's just one of the anecdotes that go with the terrain, like leaving a
box or two of cards or a stack of tapes or your dinner on top of a 1403N1
when it ran out of forms..
How well sealed were the raised floors? I ask this because i recall an episode
or two where a disk drive would spring a leak and make a beautiful slippery
pool on the floor, just waiting for the next operator to dash by. I always
wondered how much of the stuff made it to the subfloor.
--Chuck
Dave