On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:20:33 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I recall hearing about a UNIVAC shipboard computer where the drum ripped loose >from the deck when the ship was maneuvering quickly. > I have heard this story called apocryphal, as on the FASTRAND page: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/fastrand.html
But it states that the model II had counterrotating drums to nullify precessional effects due to earth's rotation(!) Can't both be true. >... And I as there when an IBM 2305 did drivek, after multiple power failures, >let out a scream like the wailing of the damned and left nicely polished disks >and a pile of brown dust. IBM promised that they would have it up in an >absurdly short (but still too long) time - and did. > Did they reconstitute the brown dust? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN