> On Sep 26, 2017, at 10:20 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 09/26/2017 09:53 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > >> Ah yes, the interesting 11MB IMI 7710. Cromemco also used them in their >> Z-2H; I still have one somewhere, not a bad drive when it worked ;-) > > The really crazy thing is that we were taking our hardware over to > Viking Labs to do temperature, humidity and shake table testing, along > with hipot. We were pretty proud that things kept working even after > the CRT neck fractured.
That reminds me of one of the “chamber” tests that was being run on an XT. The XT was in the chamber running diagnostics while the chamber was doing temperature and humidity cycling. The lab techs left it running over a long weekend. Over the weekend there was a power failure (not infrequent in southern Florida) and the chamber when it rebooted ran it’s default program which was to raise the temperature to 70C and remain there for 24 hours. The sight that greeted us when we came into the lab was funny. The monitor (I think it was monochrome) melted (I should say the plastic did) and the floppy disk in the drive was rippled. However, we rebooted the XT (after removing the floppy from the drive) and it worked (including the monitor). TTFN - Guy
