12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
5:45 p.m.
Was the person injured?
I understand about the hardware thing, I had assumed that the company had aqcuired it on
your recommendation. It didn't occur to me that you would loan them your own
hardware.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net>
Subject: Re: UNIX V7
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, 12 June, 2009, 5:52 PM
Dropped the machine (no crate, it was a local move from another building) off the back of
the truck and destroyed it. The person unloading it slipped and fell, the machine was
thrown about eight feet. The case was broken, drives had failure warnings, and rather than
take chances we parted the machine out.
It was replaced because I am not interested in providing free hardware to the company on a
long term basis.
On Jun 12, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Andrew Burton <aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Did they drop the crate it was in from a great height? Or was the vehicle it was being
transported in involved in a road accident? Or was it something else?
How much power would it require of the MicroVAX (I'm an Amiga/Speccy person, so have
no clue about VAXen or PDP's etc.) too be a DNS server and why replace it if it
worked?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net>
Subject: Re: UNIX V7
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, 12 June, 2009, 4:22 PM
Yes, but nobody will care until the law shows up or we get hacked, in which case things
will still be my fault. He who bitches loudest gets what he wants, and I am outnumbered.
(We run a data warehouse for government/corporate contractors to locate certified minority
owned subcontractors for bidding disclosure compliance purposes.)
To make things a bit more on-topic, for the first two weeks of our operations our DNS
server was a MicroVAX standing in for a machine that was destroyed in shipping.