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Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624

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NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> writes:
> Cory - Apologies for adressing you as Anne/Lynn - I didn't read the header properly.
>
> Just to add that in the basement of IBM Hursley, there was an
> environmental chamber where they tested the 2984 (that's the only
> model I saw there, but there may have been others) in all sorts of
> temperatures.
>
> When I was there they were testing in hot and humid conditions,
> although the chamber was capable of replicating sub-zero temperatures
> as well. And they were testing with real bills, although I saw only UK
> bills - probably because the 2984 was primarily a UK only machine.

trivia: part of the time I was allowed to play disk engineer in bldgs
14&15 ... some posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

the only environmental chamber I remember was in bldg. 15 (disk product
test lab) ... temperature, humidity and air pressure ... it had to be
large enough for large controllers and disk drives ... and looked like
decompression chamber ... fairly heavily armored for low-pressure and
high-pressure.

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Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> - 2016-06-25 00:16 -0700
  Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 23:10 +0100
    Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> - 2016-07-06 11:16 -0700
      Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-07-06 21:52 -0700
        Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-02 00:54 -0700
  Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp@gmail.com> - 2016-07-07 17:45 -0700
    Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-07-07 19:03 -0700
      Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> - 2016-08-02 01:02 -0700
        Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-08-02 10:11 -0700

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