Monster IDE Drives

Collins Richey erichey2
Mon May 17 11:59:21 PDT 2004


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:41:09 -0500
"Leon A. Goldstein" <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:

An insurance company I worked for in Dallas had an IBM 14xx series
computer with magnetic drum storage (size of a small refrigerator) but
not much storage.  They kept having failures, but no clue, so finally
they assigned a customer engineer to baby sit 24x7.  One night the third
shift operator walked in and threw down his wool sweater by the drum. 
End of Story.

-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1


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