BIG disk drives (was Re: Last chance before they hit SCRAP...)

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Oct 25 11:09:08 1999

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Eric Smith wrote:
>Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com> wrote:
>> I explained to him slowly and carefully that I could walk because of moving
>> an RA80 last night.
>
>I must misunderstand your statement. Are you claiming that you couldn't
>walk before moving the RA80? How did the RA80 cure you? Sounds like
>a miracle to be; only three more needed before the RA80 becomes a saint. :-)

  Oh no...typo...I meant "could HARDLY walk". :-)

>As Al and I were unloading racks of System Industries Clustor 3 disks
>(at about 500 lbs. each), one of them nearly got away from him, and would
>have fallen on me if it had. I can just imagine what people's reactions
>would have been to hearing that I was killed by a falling disk drive:
>"What kind of freak accident was that? Disk drives only weigh a pound or
>two!"

  Eeeeeek!! Now *those* are big disks! Glad you didn't get squashed!

                   -Dave
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 11:09:08 BST