Low ceilings and other impediments (includes floods)

From: McFadden, Mike <mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu>
Date: Fri Apr 20 11:26:02 2001

Floods
Our computer room was on the 10th floor of an office building and the drain
for the water cooled air handler dumped into a sink in the hall next to the
elevator. The cleaning crew left a mop in the sink and it clogged up. We
flooded the entire area below our raised computer floor. Amazingly the PDP
11/70 and RP04 kept on running, we noticed the problem because of the
humidity in the room when we came in. Nothing like mold covered cables in
raceways. We tried wicking the water out and blowing hot air under the
floor, the mold really liked the hot air. Being on the 10th floor
surrounded by low buildings we used to estimate how many mag tapes we could
braid together to escape from a fire, we knew the ladder trucks couldn't
reach us. We also estimated the disk safe with our backup disks would
probably end up on some lower floor.

Mike
mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu
Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 11:26:02 BST