File protection ring? I've seen those in multiple colors. Easy  to pull apart, 
until the random tough one popped up.


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 1:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...

yellow ring frizbes :)


On 1/19/2022 12:26 PM, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote:
> Same story, but a Yellow write ring tossed with force (think dodge ball). 
> Same result.
>
> Every time I notice a Plexiglas cover over the EPO button, I smile.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]>  On Behalf Of 
> Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 1:05 PM
> To:[email protected]
> Subject: Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...
>
> At my first job (1975) one of the programmers was chatting to the operators 
> and then lent against that red button on the wall. Shutdown the entire 
> machine room of course.
>
> Lennie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]>  On Behalf Of 
> Mike Shaw
> Sent: 19 January 2022 16:44
> To:[email protected]
> Subject: Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...
>
> We once had a data check we could not get past on a 3420 tape. This was 
> around 1980, MVS/SE 1 or thereabouts. The lead sysprog hit stop on the tape 
> drive, pulled the leading tape portion out of the vacuum column, rubbed it 
> gently back and forth between his finger and thumb, and slowly released the 
> tape back into the vacuum column. He hit start on the tape drive and we got 
> past the data check and read the rest of the data on that tape without a 
> problem. No blocks were missed.
>
> I thought that was magic at the time...
>
> Mike Shaw
> MVS/QuickRef Support Group
> Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:31 AM Seymour J Metz<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> Back in the old days the R/W heads lifted up when you unloaded  a tape
>> and moved down when you mounted a new reel. One day an interlock
>> didn't interlock and the R/W head mashed the hand of an operator. The
>> damage wasn't permanent, but everybody was more cautious after that.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
>> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on
>> behalf of Cameron Conacher
>> [[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 10:22 AM
>> To:[email protected]
>> Subject: Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...
>>
>> A very long time ago, (mid seventies I think) I was loading a tape to
>> a tape drive.
>> A button on my jean jacket trapped the edge of my jacket sleeve inside
>> the tape drive when as the glass closed.
>> I stood patiently and waited for the tape processing to complete so
>> the tape could unload.
>>
>> After that, I paid more attention when loading tapes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> .......Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]>  On
>> Behalf Of Kirk Wolf
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 9:41 AM
>> To:[email protected]
>> Subject: [External] Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...
>>
>> Hooray! Now we've got the kind of thread that is the life blood of
>> ibm-main :-)
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, at 7:21 AM, John McKown wrote:
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>>> communication controller and dropped a university's entire network.
>>> Multiple sites.
>>>
>>>
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