2 incidents at a shop where I no longer work. 1) Fire alarm started sounding. Checked the zones and found an "electrical smell", but no flames. Couldn't find the fire, and the Ops Manager said "Everyone out!". The Halon dumped. Sounded like the building collapsing. That was in the good ole days when you could smoke at your desk. For the next 2 days, the smokers had to go outside to smoke, because there was still a presence of Halon that would not let a "bic" lighter stay lit!
2) Second incident at same facility. One of the motor generators that supplied the power for our IBM 3084 processors actually caught fire and flames were coming out. Ops Manager ordered an operator to hit the EPO button......you guessed it...nothing happened. The EPO was not wired correctly to force a ground fault! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets So over the years I've heard a few good stories about accidental (or deliberate) Halon dumps and BRS pressings. Like operators playing Frisbee in the machine room and discovering that the Halon button really, really needs a cover on it... Who else has stories to share? -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
