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From: 3ksnn64@cadlab.ecn.purdue.edu (Joe Cychosz)
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Subject: Re: Wanted.. any info on 26" disk drive platter
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Date: 14 Sep 90 20:51:52 GMT
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In article <25833@shamash.cdc.com> rrr@u02.svl.cdc.com (Rich Ragan) writes:
>I heard a 6603 story (possibly apocryphal) that at some site
>the heads crashed and the motors kept on turning. Supposedly
>the magnesium platters soon ignited and the equivalent of
>"meltdown" occurred in the computer room.

Livermore threatend to ignite there disk after it was decomissioned.  I
don't know if they ever did.

Joe