Sun E450 server officially vintage

Brent Hilpert hilpert at cs.ubc.ca
Thu Jan 4 02:02:17 CST 2007


David Griffith wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 
> > > >    number of times system has inflicted injuries on the owner
> > >
> > > That seems reasonable - I'm sure we all agree every QBUS enclosure
> > > ever produced is on topic :-) :-)
> >
> > I don't believe I've ever been injured by a Q-Bus enclosure.  You just need
> > to be careful! :^)  I can't remember loosing any skin, even on a BA23.
> > Granted most of the time I've used a BA123.
> 
> I've never used such a thing, but I have gashed my hand on the corner of a
> disused one.

I was never fond of the physical construction of DEC machines, things like
heavy gauge stamped metal with no cleanup of the sheared edges. Can't say I
was ever injured by it but I always approached it with a wary eye when working
inside the cabinets.



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