[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Mar 25 18:30:41 CST 2002


On March 25, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> Hmm.  Adrenaline.  I once had a DECsystem 5810 fall on me from a height of
> almost two feet.  For those who don't know, it's the same,
> chassis/supplies/backplanes as a VAX 6000.  It's heavy.  It was on me for
> about 3/4 seconds.  What I said was, "AAH!".  After that 3/4 second, which
> felt more like half an hour, we rolled the machine into my garage.  I was
> sore for a week afterwards.

  Damn...the last thing that made me THAT sort had long blonde hair.

    -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire                    "...it's leaving me this unpleasant,
St. Petersburg, FL                 damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar



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