Yes; and in an even further corner of the forgotten empire, we had one of the early PDP-8 minis which stopped one day. It was located in a very small cupboard, and extensive, expensive, investigation finally revealed that the hard disk had stopped because tiny cluster flies (with which the building was infested, in a major way) had been sucked from outside, through a large ventilation fan and had lodged in the warmest place they could find (and presumably breed) - inside the hard disk. Sheer weight and numbers of dead bodies had fouled the whole thing up. As I recall, the disk was large and had a retracting shield or shutter which was pushed back as the drive was inserted. Or something. It was a very long time ago, in a university far, far away (demolished last year - and the PDP-8 was still in there, as I remember).
Marcus On 19 Jul 2013, at 12:58, Ed Nisley wrote: > On 07/18/2013 02:04 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: >> I had a handful of mylar dots from a tape punch. > > A long time ago in a universe far away, our ancient college dorm had a > huge in-wall vent fan blowing air from the corridor across the top of > the shower stalls. Perhaps that was easier than routing electrical > conduit across the room to put the fan in the outside window? > > Once upon a time, I poured a box of punch card flakes through that > (running) fan, thoroughly coating one of my cronies in the first shower > stall. > > Seemed like a good idea at the time, is all I can say... > > -- > Ed > softsolder.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
