5 Sep
2008
5 Sep
'08
5 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:19:33PM +0100, Gordon J. C. Pearce wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:16 -0400, Patrick Finnegan
wrote:
I've seen plenty of DEC cabinets with a couple hundred pounds of
counterweight in the bottom _plus_ anti-tip feet. Fortunately, I've
never had the pleasure of one tipping over on me, so I can understand
why they do it.
The closest I've personally experienced was trying to extract an 11/750
out of a minivan solo. I managed not to crush me or crunch the CPU, but
it was tough.
I _really_ don't want an SA482 cab falling on top of me.
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-333-S Current South Pole Weather at 5-Sep-2008 at 11:50 Z
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They're about the only company I know of that
takes a 1900lb rack of
machines, and then puts another 200lbs of steel plates on the bottom to
add weight. (IBM SP frames)
Now that I think about it, I'm surprised that I don't yet have a bad
back thanks to my IBM gear.
Of course, having 100kg of ballast in the bottom does give you the
rather handy feature of making the rack not tip over and kill you when
you pull a machine at the top...