Re: Two good articles to read -- MIDRANGE-L

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I'd like to know why my 41A weighs 3 times as much as my 515 and they're
virtually the same size physically.

The drives aren't solid state are they? I hear them grinding now and then.

Bradley V. Stone
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I must admit in my 30 years of IBM experience, capacitors
never were a big issue in their boxes or power supplies.
Compared to other vendors... ;-)

one exception: the 3581 and 3582 tape libraries, but these
are cheap built crap.

-h

Am 02.02.2017 um 20:44 schrieb Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>:

Cool...nice improvement.

Till the capacitor pops... ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

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