On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:22:53 -0700, Lloyd Fuller wrote: >For awhile, every morning we would get a system crash: a >hardware crash, the CPU just died.
We had a system where intermittently the overnight batch update would die - after several hours. Non-restartable - we're talking "old-school" here; tape masterfile, tape tranfile, tape output. Serious PITA. The datacentre was several floors up, and the airport was a few kms west, so some bright CE suggested we cover the tape drive (roll-top) covers with foil in case the radar was interfering. Worked a treat. Later someone observed the west wall of the datacentre was solid. But we had windows to the north. Out that way, 4 or 5 times as far away as the airport was "Weapons Research" - a government entity now known as "Defence Signals". North Americans can think of NSA and Echelon for comparison. They had (and have) all the baddest equipment known to man. We later reckoned they were to blame - even in those days. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
