Model 620/S20 Power Interlocks - Would IBM Please Confirm

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:35 AM 6/26/98 -0400, you wrote:

Would someone from IBM please confirm this in an "on the record" format.
Hello, Bruce Vining, are you there?

Al

>Steven,
>
>> Also, there is a fix for the inner covers on the 620s and S20s
>> that cover the port cables. Our CE removed the power interlocks
>> from the covers, plugged them into their sockets and pitched out
>> the cable covers as part of the initial machine set up.
>
>  Actually IBM has discontinued those interlocks.  They were required
>because the units were initially designated as customer setup.  Any
>customer setup machine with more than 500 Watts of total power supply is
>required to have interlocks preventing the attaching and removal of any
>cables while power is applied.  By removing the customer setup
>designation the interlocks can be removed. 
>
>  I gave IBM a verbal schelacking at Sound Off at spring COMMON, and was
>informed within 24 hours of the decision to remove the interlocks.  See
>- Your opinions do count! (Well OK, it was not my doing alone.  The
>decision had already been made.)
>
>  There is a field fix that will be rolled out to those systems that
>still have the interlocks in place.  (By the way if yours are simply
>disconnected from the covers you will want to tape them on, they fit
>very loosly.)
>
>  Larry Bolhuis
>  Arbor Solutions, Inc
>  lbolhui@ibm.net
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