> It made quite an impression 
> being on the job all of 15 minutes then being asked to drop several 
> newly assembled machines from a height of 4 feet onto a thinly carpeted 
> manufacturing floor as part of a drop test. As I recall, in the 2 years 
> I worked there, we did that test exactly once.

At DEC they dropped the MicroVAX I BA-23 boxes from a height of 18
inches onto bare concrete while they were running.

If the machine even reset itself, they would investigate what went wrong
and re-design it so that would not happen again.

md

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