Author: Albert Silver
Date: 21:07:15 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 23:45:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On February 11, 2000 at 15:06:34, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On February 11, 2000 at 14:33:19, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>
>>>On February 11, 2000 at 13:43:50, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>
>>>>Take it out for an hour and leave it until it is a nice popsicle, then bring it
>>>>back into a warm place. Condensation should result, hence the comment on the air
>>>>exposure I believe.
>>>
>>>Also consider digital watches... I'm sure those things go through a ton of
>>>temperature abuse and I've never heard of one failing because of it. My dad has
>>>a digital watch and the face got all clouded up with condensation, but it still
>>>kept time.
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>
>>True, true, but I wouldn't put a Cray to the test based on this... :-)
>>
>
>
>Nope. Call Lawrence Livermore National Lab and ask for the C division. Ask
>them about the sprinklers that let go about 12 years ago or so. Took a year
>to get that cray back up, took way over 1M dollars too. Every board had to be
>scrubbed, cleaned, to get the simple deposits off left by filtered tapwater.
>
>No one knew the sprinkler was even hooked up until too late... :)
Wait a minute. Someone hooked up a water based fire prevention system (I presume
it wasn't an automated flower waterer) in a room with ever so slightly expensive
machinery? That sounds insane. A bit like curing a headache with an axe: no more
headaches _guaranteed_. :-)
Albert Silver
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