Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 120

When we unplugged our last white rack from our iSeries (only had it to 
hold some 3590 tape drives we also got rid of) I thought I'd hit the big 
red switch after I unplugged it.  Switch broke just as clean as all those 
switches that broke on 3196 terminals.  Didn't hear anything from our 
vendor upon receipt.  If any of you gets a white rack second hand with a 
broken emergency power switch...


Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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IBM was installing our brand-new System/3 Model 15, and something 
went wrong.  The CE had to pull the "Emergency Pull" knob.  He was so 
enthusiastic that it broke off in his hand.  I don't think it was 
intended that it break off...

As I remember the way it worked, it was like a big On/Off switch, and 
all it did was turn off main power.  Fast.  Cold.  And there was a 
mechanical interlock so you couldn't just push it back in and 
restart; you called IBM.  If you had to use it, it had better be a 
BIG emergency (ie smoke pouring out of the system unit).

--Paul E Musselman
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