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From: steele@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: Wanted.. any info on 26" disk drive platter
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Date: 13 Sep 90 13:12:01 GMT
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This is my personal favorite 6603 story. I wasn't there when it
happened, though. By the time I got there a year or so later, it had
been replaced with a 6638. (Every time I smell alcohol in the air, I
think of the hours and hours spent by C.E.'s buffing those platters!) 

As most of you (some of you? ANY of you?) will remember, the 6603 
platters were mounted with the axis of rotation horizontal, in a 
narrow cabinet with doors on the front and back. Well, to the 
carefully observant, there was ONE difference between the front and 
back doors: one had a metal pocket built into it for the manuals!

As the story has it, an (unnamed) C.E., had just finished with a repair 
of the 6603, and was replacing the doors (with it running, of course), 
and got them transposed. When the door with the manual pocket was 
closed (on the wrong end), the edges of the platters made contact with 
it, causing a rather obvious failure of the unit (screeching, smoke, 
etc.!). A rather long period of down-time supposedly followed...   :-)

And yes, Steve, you're right. They MOST CERTAINLY don't make 'em like 
they used to!
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