Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!mimsy!cvl!umd5!terminus.umd.edu!davidc
From: davidc@terminus.umd.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now
Message-ID: <1739@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 14:15:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.1739
Posted: Tue Jun 16 14:15:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jun-87 02:45:42 EDT
References: <1240@ssc-vax.UUCP> <631@mapper.UUCP> <3268@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> <163@buengc.BU.EDU>
Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu
Reply-To: davidc@terminus.umd.edu (David R. Conrad)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Lines: 12
Keywords: Walking disk drives
Xref: utgpu talk.bizarre:2055 comp.misc:625


A couple of years ago I used to run dumps on a Prime system.  In the space
of three hours, the disk drives (two big CDC cabinets) would walk about 
two feet.  They would also vibrate like crazy.  When I first saw this my
immediate reaction was to look for cover, figuring that shrapnel was about
to come flying out the cabinets from the disintegrating platters.  

-drc

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David R. Conrad      The University of Maryland       arpa: davidc@umd5.umd.edu
(301) 454-2946              PC/IP Group             bitnet: conradd@umdd.bitnet