Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!194.255.237.131.MISMATCH!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Message-ID: Date: 16 May 2011 15:51:29 -0500 References: 4dcdf5e8$0$28811$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6@news.astraweb.com <8a946251-b337-42d3-8fee-245330cafa67@u26g2000vby.googlegroups.com> Organization: Encompasserve Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.53.90.116 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=MJC@@5c8g6e^Yj[LZVmDVlYSB=nbEKnkk[\2eR;j41\eT1og, jbriggs444 writes: > > Reminds me of the old VMS war story... Guys are in the > machine room working on a chassis with a stack of RA81's. > The wheels weren't locked and the thing rolls into a hole > where a floor tile would have been. The frame is bent > and they use a car jack to straighten it out again. Same story, but an 11/750 which rolled into a hole during the last big west coast earth quake. Never shut down, never stopped running. (Not my story.)