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- TAGS:flower, minicomputer
- IT TOPICS:Data Center, Management
Flashback to the 1980s, when a vendor tech can't figure out why a hard drive on this minicomputer fails every Friday, according to a pilot fish on the inside.
"In those days, the drives were huge removable 300MB units, about 3 feet high," fish says.
"The tech finally asked the computer operator to explain everything that went on in the computer room every Friday."
Operator tells tech it's a pretty standard routine: She does the computer backups, puts everything away, waters the flower in the computer room and goes home.
Tech sees that the flower is in a pot that's hanging well above the hard drive, but not directly over it, so he figures that can't be the problem.
In the end, he decides to show up early and watch the operator run through her routine.
And that's when he sees it. "He watched the computer operator get a water pot," says fish, "put a chair next to the hard drive, stand on the removable lid of the hard drive and water the flower.
"Needless to say, the hard drive crashed as soon as she stood on it. Case solved."
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