13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
11:07 p.m.
mc68010 wrote:
On 8/13/2012 9:28 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Having worked in a server / rack environment, I would say that the niose
level is way higher than in the raised floor days.
The rack noise is a loud, unchanging roar, with occasional punctuation
of chillers moving up and down a notch.
Back then, the noise in the machine room was aurally interesting and
gave you a clue to when things ran off the tracks.
Line printers are most notable.When a AWOL job starts slewing paper with
a single character printed per-page, That was your problem.
-jim.
With all those 729 magtape drives? Deafening.
-Dave
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.