I liked? raised? flooring....? ? ?you can? clean the room up? fast? by stashing? stuff in
the non critical to airflow? areas!? ----see
we? were? lucky? when? comshare? of an arbor? ? division on? phx? ? moved out? ?where?
they? designed? IBM channel interfaces? for? xerox sigma 9s
We? got their? space next to? us? ?and bought? their? their? flooring? rather? than them?
shipping? back? to ann arbor Mich.? to put? our? HP? stuff on.
best? thing? ever? did? ?it? kept? things neat, clean and? provided? xtra storage.?
In a message dated 5/20/2019 9:11:04 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:
I guess it would look right for the era, but I'd
never build a data center
with raised flooring after my experiences with them.? It's such a pain to
work with compared to a sealed concrete floor and overhead cable trays.
But with a raised floor, you can whack the tile puller down in such a
way that it makes an enormously loud pop that startles everyone in the
datacenter!
I cannot imagine difficult it would be to run S/360 era cables in
overhead trays. Many are an inch or more in diameter.
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Will
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Will