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Article #976Re: Another hardware damage story
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 18:15
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 18:15
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In article <1990Jan15.174038.5859@virtech.uucp> jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) writes: >... The building had no loading dock, the >truck had no ramp, and he was in a rush, so he *pushed* the cabinet, >with the disks off the back of the truck (about four feet to the >ground)... Amazingly enough, there were no problems... I dimly recall somebody -- possibly George Goble of Purdue -- reporting that Fujitsu Eagles sometimes got shipped with the heads unlocked. You had to look for it specifically, because generally they still worked! -- 1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1990: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry he...@zoo.toronto.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Another hardware damage story Message-ID: <1990Jan16.181518.4034@utzoo.uucp> Date: 16 Jan 90 18:15:18 GMT References: <1990Jan15.174038.5859@virtech.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 Posted: Tue Jan 16 19:15:18 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit