[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 11:12 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> IIRC, these are direct channel connection which is a pretty thick
>> umbilical connection.  I fired off a note to someone who may know
>> more  about this stuff and see what he says.
>
> BUSS and TAG lines? GAWD, those are some awful big cables... I spent a
> month pulling them out of a raised-floor AT&T data center that was
> being shut down... 150' cables weigh a (seeming) ton! They had a coiler
> (that dropped into the raised floor to secure it), and the 150' cables
> took up an entire pallet...

   Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're not used on newer equipment anymore...I 
believe they were supplanted by ESCON and [later] FICON.

        -Dave

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