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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mv!world!dp
- From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
- Subject: Re: World's Toughest Computers
- Message-ID: <BxzED5.B0H@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov19.190739.18948@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:00:39 GMT
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- >What are some stories that you have heard about them?
- >
- >
- >I have two stories for you about the IBM AS/400's ruggedness:
- >
- >1. An AS/400 was being delivered for a field test. The workmen
- >who were loading the truck neglected to secure the large computer
- >and it toppled out of the truck landing on its back in the site
- >parking lot. The system was taken back to the lab and checked
- >out. After the power was turned on, the system ran normally.
-
- This may be UL, but I am told that mid 70's HP minicomputers got a 4
- foot drop test, DISKS SPINNING. Certainly any mil spec computer would
- have to withstand a drop at least as severe as out of a truck,
- otherwise they wouldn't be able to airdrop them.
-
- <dp>
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