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Re: The True Aficionado?

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In article <PM00052D38F4E28E9A@aca41c7c.ipt.aol.com>,
jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>Morten Reistad wrote:
>> In article <PM00052D2521DCF4E4@aca40c8f.ipt.aol.com>,
>> jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>>Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Every machine had its own "personality".
>>>>
>>>> They still do. BUT that has nothing to do with
>>>> stuff like the machines used to make the machine.
>>>> And so when we had humans who were JUST doing
>>>> what machines did later, the wire wrapping, THOSE
>>>> people contributed nothing to the personality.
>>>
>>>Of course they did.  Every wire-wrapped machine had it
>>>quirks.  Fixing hardware bugs could cause more quirks.
>>
>> Yes, I have accounts on around 200 machines around the
>> world. Most are just another collection of computing
>> power, like the SIP and web farms we load balance calls
>> to.
[snip, kirov summary]
>> It has a different personality, though.
>
>Oh, good. You understand what I'm trying to describe.
>I know anthromorphizing a system isn't accurate but I could never
>figure out a qualitative description.  You can feel when something
>is going wrong, too.
>

>> -- mrr
>>
>> [1] historical reference. The building did assassinate the
>> machine by letting a steel pipe come loose and dissect it.
>>
>
><grin>  Yesterday, I recalled the time a pail of water crashed
>through the ceiling behind KL1026.  Apparently, that was
>maintenance's "fix" for a leak.  Our operations supervisor
>was 2 feet away when it fell.

I have told the story of the RP07 going terrorist?

The RP07 had the heads enter the platters in a different direction
from most other drives. Mostly, head crashes just drag the heads along
the oxide. The RP07 had a failure mode where the heads buried 
instantly deep into the platter when they crashed. This made
significant havoc to the surroundings when the momentum of the
rotating platters were more or less instantly transferred to the
cabinet.

This happened one day at my old college. The cabinet was part of
a DEC2065 and was right next to one of the 6 strong steel supports
that held up the 9-story building. It was at the 2nd floor.

This day emacs froze and around 1 second later there was a *really*
loud bang in the building. Instant bomb alarm and full evacuation.
We all thought someone had bombed the computer facility, right below
the deans office.

But it was just an RP07 that had had this type of head crash and 
hit the steel support on it's way around the computer room.

It was found above the CPU cabinet; entangled in the cabling that
still mostly held. The CPU was still operating, but was not too happy
about a bit of swap space that was missing. The CPU cabinet had
a visible dent; but nothing except the cable attachments inside 
was damaged.

-- mrr

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Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-21 15:48 +0000
  Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-21 13:43 -0800
    Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-23 13:13 +0000
      Re: The True Aficionado? mentificium@gmail.com - 2016-02-23 06:06 -0800
      Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 04:40 +1100
        Re: The True Aficionado? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-23 09:50 -0800
        Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-24 13:40 +0000
          Re: The True Aficionado? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-25 03:14 +1100
            Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-01 13:55 +0000
              Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 01:30 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-02 14:19 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 03:51 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-03 13:39 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-03 16:18 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 03:52 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-04 13:22 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-04 16:33 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-04 15:47 -0600
                Re: The True Aficionado? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-05 01:04 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-05 13:57 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-06 11:40 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-03-06 23:18 -0600
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-04 17:18 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-03-04 22:09 -0500
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-05 13:57 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-03-05 14:36 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-03-06 14:08 +0000
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Sangmo" <ju410@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 02:03 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-06 17:28 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-06 11:54 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Sangmo" <ju410@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 07:39 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-06 17:24 -0700
                Re: The True Aficionado? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-05 18:43 +0100
                Re: The True Aficionado? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-06 11:34 -0800
                Re: The True Aficionado? Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-03-07 16:24 -0600
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-04 03:45 +1100
                Re: The True Aficionado? "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-03 16:01 -0600

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