Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:55:12 02/12/00
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On February 12, 2000 at 00:07:15, Albert Silver wrote: >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 The room actually had the usual Halon system. But it was originally not a computer room, and had a sprinkler system that was supposedly disconnected. They discovered it wasn't.
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