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Started by Jeremy J. Epstein
Fri, 27 Apr 1990 13:02
Walking disk drives & earthquakes
Author: Jeremy J. Epstein
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 13:02
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 1990 13:02
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During the summer of 1979, I was at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino. There was a moderate (5.5?) earthquake, but all the machines kept running. At least one fell over, several "walked", but none stopped. The joke was that HP would start marketing its systems as (San Andreas) "fault tolerant". -- Jeremy Epstein TRW Systems Division 703-876-8776 j...@virtech.uu.net
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