[191256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bzs@theworld.com)
Wed Aug 31 00:09:14 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:06:13 -0400
From: bzs@theworld.com
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160831010907.A0E9052F5A72@rock.dv.isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
One day, when I ran the Harvard Chemistry computing facility, I was
greeted on my way in by panicked profs and grad students that the big
VMS VAX (8MB! two memory cabinets! we gave tours!) was behaving
strangely I forget what probably crawling.
A lot of its use was for long-running jobs, week plus, basically
inverting matrices.
So I lept into action, whipped off my heavy winter coat and tossed it
onto one of the big disk drives and wham the system just halted.
Static I guess. Came back ok. Problem solved.
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD
The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
