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Graap, Ken wrote: > John - > > I remember working with a S/38 Model 4 with 4MB of RAM. That was way back in > 1984. It went really "big time" when we upgraded to 8MB of RAM and purchased > another 3370 disk drive. The tape drives we were using were 3410/11's .... > Way slow compared to the 3590's I use today! We also didn't have anything > like RAID, Mirroring or Checksum in the very early days. I lost two 3370 > disk drives within the same week once. Both times I had to reload the > complete system from backup... Everytime a 3370 went out we would start a pool going on how long the access path rebuild process would take. 12-20 hours was about the range for our system. I remember pocketing a lot of one dollar bills in those days...... on multiple occaisions. We also had this great list of things to do while the system was down..... Item number one was update your resume (just in case it didn't come back up) jte -- John Earl johnearl@toolnet.com PowerTech Toolworks 206-575-0711 PowerLock Network Security www.toolnet.com The 400 School www.400school.com -- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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