Yeah, many of the fire codes are left over from the big SFO Central Office fire in late seventies. It spread horizontally and vertically in the building via paper wrapped cables. First week of my new job in 1980 I was asked to place a 3278 closer to the modem racks for problem determination. The cost to run the conduit thru the vapor barriers under the raised floor was $1100! In a message dated 3/15/2016 3:30:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
so I would not want to populate it with cubicles that could be located elsewhere. OTOH we have acres of raised floor in older data centers built with multiple bipolar mainframes in plan. Who knew? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
