--- "Feldman, Robert" <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com> wrote:
> Reminds me of a couple of AT&T 6300's that I used in an exhibit at the
> Field Museum of Natural History here in Chicago. The keyboards...
> drilled... all the way through...
There were two high-profile incidents at the Physics Department at
Ohio State while I was there (or shortly before)... the inventory
department is charged with tagging all assets. For the multi-thousand-
dollar precision glass grated scale (think ultra-fine diffraction
grating), they chose to etch the asset number into its face with HFl.
The $50,000 hydraulic press received its metal tag at its thinnest
point - the upper hydraulic reservoir (being the only place thin enough
to pierce for riveting). The first time they fired it up, I'm told,
the rivets shot across the room. Naturally, the reservoir was machined
into the main casting, not a replacable item.
The inventory department had replace the items out of their own budget
(which was none-too-large to begin with). After that, there was an
official written policy that no Physics items were to be tagged without
approval of/monitoring by the Department. Too expensive to let the
drones have their way with drills and acid.
(In a related incident, the CIS guys turned away the inventory guys when
they showed up with a bag of aluminum tags and a riveter to individually
drill and tag all the boards in a 6' rack of modems. I think the CIS dude
signed for the bag of tags and stuck them in a drawer).
-ethan
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Received on Fri Oct 25 2002 - 10:35:00 BST