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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More Mac-related earthquake news
Message-ID: <18815@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 89 07:22:48 GMT
References: <18735@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <4896@internal.Apple.COM>
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In article <4896@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <18735@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex 
>Lau) writes:
>> into mush, and wrecked two days of data. This could conceivably delay
>> the release of System 7.0 by months, or at least give Apple a really
>> good excuse for coming out late. 

>I don't see how a loss of two days of data could delay System 7.0 by 
>months.

Two months was the original delay estimate of one of the people that was
working on System 7.0, although it's hard to calculate a delay when
there's no official release date. :)

>According to the director of facilities at Apple, everyone should be back 
>at work by today Wednesday.  (In other words, the people from De Anza 3 
>should all be relocated.  I know that some of the people were back working 
>as early as Tuesday morning.)  So far, I haven't seen any reports of data 
>loss, and I've seen several reports of "no loss of data".

So the reports you and I have gotten are different. I got a report from
someone who was at DA3 when the quake hit (same guy who got hit by the
19" monitor) that the System Software crowd had to revert to a backup
two days old that was stored offsite. A later report from the same guy
said that the data loss wasn't so bad because many of the hard drives
that were reported as dead started working again after they dried off
for a day or so.

>>Earlier reports of condemnation may have been premature

>Earlier reports were wrong.  De Anza 3 is fundamentally sound.  The 
>interior will have to be refurbished, however.

Apple Public Relations reported, according to MacWEEK, that DeAnza 3
had suffered "major structural damage," and would be "closed
indefinitely." You guys better talk to them about this, if they're
so wrong...

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