One of the mainframe guys I used to work with in the late 90's had a photo of one of the platters from the hard disk embedded in the server room wall, this was one of those early IBM beasts with 24 inch platters that had a catastrophic failure.
One of the mainframe guys I used to work with in the late 90's had a photo of one of the platters from the hard disk embedded in the server room wall, this was one of those early IBM beasts with 24 inch platters that had a catastrophic failure.
I suspect that was a very old photograph, because I heard a similar story in the 1960s. The drive was the IBM 1301, a very large disk drive. According to the story, if a head crashed in the outer track, it provided enough torque to snap the arm holding the head and hurl it out of the drive with enough force to beak the class door and embed itself in the wall. We ran out two IBM 1301s close to the wall and facing it, so if something like that happened only the wall would be damaged.
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One of the mainframe guys I used to work with in the late 90's had a photo of one of the platters from the hard disk embedded in the server room wall, this was one of those early IBM beasts with 24 inch platters that had a catastrophic failure.
I suspect that was a very old photograph, because I heard a similar story in the 1960s. The drive was the IBM 1301, a very large disk drive. According to the story, if a head crashed in the outer track, it provided enough torque to snap the arm holding the head and hurl it out of the drive with enough force to beak the class door and embed itself in the wall. We ran out two IBM 1301s close to the wall and facing it, so if something like that happened only the wall would be damaged.
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