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From: tank@apc3b2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 1403 Printers  (was Re: IBM 1130 Nostalgia)
Message-ID: <367@apc3b2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 09:30:44 EST
Article-I.D.: apc3b2.367
Posted: Wed Feb 11 09:30:44 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Feb-87 07:18:21 EST
References: <504@PSUECLA> <1029@phred.UUCP> <210@pembina.alberta.UUCP>, <7656@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa
Lines: 18
Summary: Other memories


At the University of Oklahoma they were running some tests on the emergency
systems for the 370.  Halon gas triggered by an emergency button with a 
one minute delay (in case of accidental use).  There was also an override
button a little out of the way (about 6 feet off the floor).  One of the testers
was describing what the button  was for, stumbled, and hit the button.

Needless to say the emergency system worked, it got hard to breath immediately
after that.  An expensive test.

Details are of course fuzzy.  I have slept a lot since this happened.

-tank-
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Jon A. Tankersley			| Usenet: { ... }!okstate!apc3b2!tank
Amoco Corporation			| Voice:  (918) 581-4086
PO Box 591, MS N1068			| Disclaimer: My own opinions.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74013			|