I really wish we could do emoji¹s in email. Totally fitting! http://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/26/people/face-with-tears-of-joy
Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / car...@race.com / http://www.race.com On 11/6/14, 7:43 PM, "Larry Sheldon" <larryshel...@cox.net> wrote: >On 11/6/2014 12:07, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:11:23 -0500, William Herrin said: >> >>> Ah yes, I recall watching them decommission the old Control Data Cyber >>>990 >>> back at Georgia Tech. The mover slipped trying to get it on the >>>liftgate >>> and the whole cabinet dropped about a foot to the ground with a nice >>>solid >>> thud. >> >> I know of a case where somebody managed to drop an IBM Shark storage >> array off a forklift. >> >> Amazingly enough, it still kinda sorta worked after that.... > >I no longer can recall the name of the company (his trucks were United >Fan Lines colors but he had split off or something and had a license to >use the colors)--all he (and crew) did was big computers. > >In the years I dealt with him the highlights were a) the time he and >crew loaded a 1783 Drum (Several thousand pounds, I think, and >top-heavy) into a truck parked against the curb or a street that has a >moderately radical slope. Rolling it off the lift gate they lost it and >it slammed against the down-hill wall pretty sternly. The truck tilted >a bit into the street light pole which made the pole whip, flinging the >glass cover down on the truck. Activity eventually stopped with the >truck leaning (and immobilized) against the pole. I don't remember the >resolution. > > >b) the time they Johnson-barred an 1110 CPU into an open hole in the >raised floor. Seems like the ripped out a lot of floor before deciding >the strategy was not working. Seems like the used several Rol-a-lifts, >a lot of canvas strapping and Johnson Bar handles recovering it. > > > >-- >The unique Characteristics of System Administrators: > >The fact that they are infallible; and, > >The fact that they learn from their mistakes. > > >Quis custodiet ipsos custodes >
