[175875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Nov 5 23:11:59 2014
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 23:11:23 -0500
To: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com>
wrote:
> (rather than the router that had a fork lift hole in the side of the box
(only
> bent the sheet metal, fortunately), or the entire rack that now had a 15
> degree tilt, and for which the inserted disk drives no longer really fit
into
> the metal shell, both "issues" showing up at the other end
Ah yes, I recall watching them decommission the old Control Data Cyber 990
back at Georgia Tech. The mover slipped trying to get it on the liftgate
and the whole cabinet dropped about a foot to the ground with a nice solid
thud.
-Bill
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