On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Hans Franke wrote:
> > > YOu are right, but it is still a doubble floor tile - The lower side =
is
> > > typical metal coated to reduce (radio) noise, transmited from the lar=
ge
> > > antennas ...err... cables below :) - and floor tiles wit carpet tiles
> > > atop are usual for 'high quality' computer rooms - don't forget, bank=
s,
> > > insurence companies and similar sites have a standard to maintain...
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> > Hmm? The banks, insurance companies and similar sites _I've_ worked
> > in reserved the image for public areas -- the computer rooms not
> > coming under that heading. The computer rooms at Prudential, Merrill
> > and the Federal Reserve Bank of NY (to give recent examples) are about
> > as showy as an impound lot. Now some of them _do_ have things like
> > control centers with lots of screens showing different stuff that the
> > PHBs will escort tourists past, the floors of those rooms are
> > carpeted. (And of course, the screens are just for show, since the
> > important data is going into logfiles and the critical alerts are
> > going forth via pagers and email).
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> Maybe I have to add that my vision is based in the 70s and 80s.
> For example I don't know the situation today, but in the early
> 80s the computer centre of the M=FCnchner R=FCck (Worlds number one
> 'Rueckversicherung' - I don't know the english term - it's an
> insurance company that secures the risks of insurance companies)
=09=09=09"reinsurance"
> looked more like a chairman's suite than a workplace - wooden
> covered walls, carpet floor (on tiles :), indirect shadeless
> ilumination, everything just _expensive_ - and spacy - you could
> walk around every mainframe like on a country yard - some 900
> square meters (~10,000 sq ft) just for ONE machine (with
> perhipherals). A similar (but less expensive) setting could be
> found thru several other companies here in Munich.
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> Gruss
> H.
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=09=09=09=09=09=09 - don
Received on Wed Mar 31 1999 - 22:10:34 BST