20 May
2019
20 May
'19
2:29 p.m.
On May 20, 2019, at 5:21 PM, Patrick Finnegan via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 5:07 PM William Donzelli via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
This gets at exactly the reason I dislike raised floors.... "out of sight -
out of mind". If all of the cabling is overhead, it gets ugly when you
abandon stuff, and there's more motivation to not make it a mess.
Perhaps, but I remember seeing overhead cable trays running down the hallways in the DEC
Mill, full of ancient and obviously abandoned stuff.
I'm
used to 2' (24") raised floors.
I was used to 24 inch floors packed with so many dead cables they were
effectively 6 to 12 inch floors. Or worse.
Also, I'd rather see all of the parts, rather than
have them hidden from
view. I suppose that not everyone shares that point of view.
Raised floors often doubled as air handling space, supplying cold air for cooling the
equipment.
Overhead trays work well for rack mounted equipment, where the trays hang just above the
racks. When the equipment is in cabinets of varying height, like line printers or RP06
disk drives or stuff like that, running the cable way up in the air isn't so handy.
Never mind the fact that the connectors are configured to send the cable downward to the
floor, not up to the ceiling.
paul