Military Humor

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sun Feb 28 01:00:30 1999

As you know I got these two uVaxen that had been decomissioned from a
"secure facility." (GE Nuclear Technology, and no they aren't radioactive!)
One has this mystery tape drive (TK70 or perhaps an 8MM) and the other
(which is the innards of a BA23 slim chassis stuck into a Sigma Information
Systems expansion chassis (which looks somewhat like a BA123) has nothing
but a 'hole' where the tape drive should be. Since these are configured
identically in every other way I asked a friend of mine who is ex-military
what his thoughts on this situation were. His response was :

"Its obvious that the second system had a floppy drive. Seen it before, the
rule is all disk drives are removed and crushed, tape drives can stay. The
system chassis is sold as scrap."

Ya gotta love that literal interpretation of the 'regs!

--Chuck
Received on Sun Feb 28 1999 - 01:00:30 GMT