[OT] Looking for ancient boot media
Jon 'maddog' Hall
maddog at li.org
Thu Jul 12 18:12:14 EDT 2007
> It made quite an impression
> being on the job all of 15 minutes then being asked to drop several
> newly assembled machines from a height of 4 feet onto a thinly carpeted
> manufacturing floor as part of a drop test. As I recall, in the 2 years
> I worked there, we did that test exactly once.
At DEC they dropped the MicroVAX I BA-23 boxes from a height of 18
inches onto bare concrete while they were running.
If the machine even reset itself, they would investigate what went wrong
and re-design it so that would not happen again.
md
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