UPS was Re: Need Burroughs Tape Spec's

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Wed Apr 17 02:29:03 2002

At 12:31 PM 16/04/2002 -0400, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:

>Here's a data point for you.

And another (Australian one). Years ago when RZ28s were new disk drives and
StorageWorks was a new concept I was Senior Systems Programmer looking
after a VMS cluster (this story is sufficiently old it might even be on
topic :-). In those days RZ28s in SBB were about AUD$3K and we'd ordered
20. My office overlooked the loading bay and I watched in horror as the
delivery driver DROPPED the disks off the back of the truck onto the ground
(say 4 feet).

He couldn't understand why I wasn't going to sign for the delivery - I told
him to take them back. Digital changed their preferred courier shortly
thereafter.....

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