Recounting th e"good olde days"???

[O'Sullivan, Kevin]

Would that 'exact term' be a 'v-init condense' by any chance?

I'm not as old as some of you sound, based on your stories (though I am
getting there), when I started we had a 3k series '42 and '48 linked via
ds-line, with a hp7970e tape drive backing up across the ds-line.

We had two 7933 'washers' on the '48 and one on the '42'

Backups took about 7 hours, onto about 38 or so tapes, which had to be
swapped every day. I swear my wingspan is greater than my height :)

Ooooohhhh, time is a passing......

Kev

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> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Deskin, Bob
> Sent: 27 April 2005 12:12
> To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: Recounting th e"good olde days"???
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> 
> While I forget the numbers, we had something like that on our 
> first HP3000 Series III. I think they were 50 meg drives. We 
> got it in 1978 and it was actually a Series II that had been 
> changed on the assembly line. You could see where they had 
> added the third I to the original two.
> 
> My other favourite story of my HP3000 days when I was the 
> system manager as well as programmer and systems analyst (we 
> were a small shop in an otherwise very large company that had 
> a central IBM mainframe in another city) was about the disk 
> drive. We were in Aylmer, Quebec, just across the river from 
> Ottawa. Now Quebec has a huge amount of hydro electric power 
> but, at least in those days, the reliability wasn't the best. 
> We were doing a compress (I forget the exact term) and the 
> power went out, only to come back on a couple of minutes 
> later, go off, and then on again. Needless to say, that 
> messed up the compress. So I reloaded from our backup, taken 
> just before the compress, and nothing happened. Now, the 
> HP3000 was renowned for its reliability. We were always 
> stunned when it crashed. We called in the system engineer who 
> eventually found the problem. The power outages mangled 
> things. It seemed that the defective track table for the 
> system drive was on a defective track. So o!
>  ut came the disk pack to be replaced.
> 
> Bob
> 
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> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of Fyfield, Derek
> Sent: April 27, 2005 6:44 AM
> To: 'powerh-l@lists.sowder.com'
> Subject: RE: Recounting th e"good olde days"???
> 
> 
> To further the washing machine imagery, earlier examples of 
> these HP 7905
> drives had a squares of Perspex in the lids so you could see 
> if the platters
> were moving.  The drives looked a treat, all lined up just like a
> laundromat.
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Derek Fyfield
> Bahrain HO 
> SMS Development & Report Writing 
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