[62417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Sep 18 08:40:59 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:38:06 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Frank <druid@softdust.com>
Cc: Matt <acheron@qwest.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1063879037.2379.6.camel@coruscant.eng.aorta.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Frank wrote:
>the orginal GSR blanks came without handles. They were also put in tight
>as ***. For days after, your fingers would have the imprints of the
>little screws on them. I once use my socks to protect my fingers when I
>was pulling them out.
>
>
Some Cisco gear also arrived with the flash cards hammered in, because
the manufacturing
people seeminly had issues getting the flash card inserted properly,
effectively destroying
the connectors and the card in process.
Though this does not compete with airport / cargo handling forklift
accomplishments.
Pete