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From: romain@pyramid.pyramid.com (Romain Kang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Pyramid and the earthquake
Message-ID: <88255@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 19 Oct 89 23:48:21 GMT
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Reply-To: romain@pyramid.pyramid.com (Romain Kang)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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We consider ourselves lucky.  Pyramid came through with mostly
superficial damage: crashed machines from a power surge, fallen ceiling
tiles, cracked drywall, and some buckled ground-level floors.  All
production systems were operable, mostly after cycling power.  Problems
I've heard seem to be mostly in the COS floppy drives in some of our
lab machines.  In the plant, local power, telephones, and water never
suffered more than momentary disruptions.  Oh, and one of our 55-gallon
fish tanks was knocked over and shattered, but most of its inhabitants
miraculously survived...

Yesterday morning, there was some question about the safety of Building
1, where RTOC is based, so we were closed yesterday, but RTOC
supervisors arranged for service calls to go through to an on-call
engineer, as they would on a holiday, and local field engineers were
instructed to take up the slack as necessary, especially since AT&T
could not guarantee that inbound WATS calls would be completed under
the circumstances.  However, the Mountain View building inspectors
declared B1 fit for habitation, and RTOC is nearly normal today, aside
from dealing with backed-up calls that didn't get through yesterday.

Certainly, there are personnel who are dealing with property damage,
including a number of totalled houses, but we aren't aware of any
injuries or fatalities among any Pyramid employees.
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