You can't blame anyone but they idiot using a 3 wheel cart while moving decks of cards. No sympathy from me.
-- Will On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:51 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 5/21/19 12:34 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > > I might think far more "obsolete" than "bad idea". It worked very well > > for the mainframe folks. > > ...except when it didn't. On more than one occasion, I recall watching > some poor soul with a cart balanced with long (3 foot) trays full of > cards, hitting a lifted separator strip in the raised floor. Over goes > the cart, the cards spread in every direction, and the pusher sitting in > the middle of it all, close to tears. > > If you happen to chance across any old card decks and note traces of a > diagonal line drawn across the top, that's the reason--a visual aid for > reassembling a spilled deck. > > I think the integration folks eventually moved to 4-wheel carts instead > of the 3-wheel ones for exactly this reason. Their job was integrating > new code and patches into the existing product base. The trip with the > cards was to make a tape of the data, so that the trip didn't have to be > repeated. > > --Chuck >
