________________________________________ From: Guy Sotomayor Jr [g...@shiresoft.com] Sent: Monday, May 1, 2017 1:57 PM To: Bill Gunshannon Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: IBM 4331 Mainframe
> On May 1, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshan...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Just hope you don't have a head crash. Had one when I was at Ft. > Ben Harrison (a long time ago, when the 4341 was just going into > production. We had one of the first!) and it sounded like the building > was coming down. Hate to think the effect it would have on your > neighbors. :-) The 3340 drives are winchester pack drives. So the heads are in the packs themselves. A head crash means that the pack is toast (but it is usually) but doesn’t render the drive inoperable (just put in another pack). TTFN - Guy ________________________________________ Yeah, pretty sure those were too. First tool the IBM Tech brought in was a shop vac. He vacuumed out what was left and had us running again in about 2 hours. Those were the days!! bill
